Camp and camino in Lower California; a record of the adventures of the author while exploring peninsular California, Mexico . chimis, occupying the regionfrom Loreto to the high mountains at the northern end ofLower California, occasionally reached over Into the south-ern grounds. In the aggregate these three tribes numberedtwenty thousand members. Each of the three main tribaldivisions was broken Into many lesser tribes, with Individualdialects and varied Idioms. Although they were a healthypeople at the time of the coming of the Padres, the Indiansdid not remain so long, for measles, smallpo
Camp and camino in Lower California; a record of the adventures of the author while exploring peninsular California, Mexico . chimis, occupying the regionfrom Loreto to the high mountains at the northern end ofLower California, occasionally reached over Into the south-ern grounds. In the aggregate these three tribes numberedtwenty thousand members. Each of the three main tribaldivisions was broken Into many lesser tribes, with Individualdialects and varied Idioms. Although they were a healthypeople at the time of the coming of the Padres, the Indiansdid not remain so long, for measles, smallpox and the loath-some diseases of tainted civilization, introduced among themby the garrisons, spread with frightful virulence. In sev-enty years the southern Indians were reduced to a scant fivethousand. By 1794 it is recorded that there were no In-dians surviving about some of the southern missions, andthirty years later report says that not a single pure Indianwas to be found below Loreto. Those who escaped disease,however, lived to extreme old age. So Indeed, do theMexicans upon the Peninsula to-day, and one may meet. The aged Cochimi of Santa Gertrudls THE PETROGLYPH MAKERS 73 even yet centenarians at Loreto and learn from them con-cerning the closing days of the Spanish sway when the sol-diers branded with a red-hot iron each new herd of Indiansbrought into the Presidio ! The Pericues and Guiacuras are now practically is not surprising. Of the thousands of Cochimis, per-haps a hundred still survive about the missions of SanXavier, Santa Gertrudis and San Borja. Those at SanXavier, however, I am inclined to believe should be classedas Guiacuras. The Cochimis are a good-natured, easy-going people, far more formally religious and far more fondof hunting than the neighboring Mexicans; they are morereliable workers than their neighbors, but they dress justas raggedly. A few years more and they will have disap-peared entirely. A family of this tribe watch over SanBorj
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