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Show saat roots, ao. ? 1 Ss cana ress, They customs it is difficult to dis‘ ° eorn onan for pour ieee pss Bi a f depended Man Beene Seis and beans, which they cultivated, adding of recent mesquite beans, etc.’’? The Cocopa housesto the w brush a with practised to some extent. i arbor for summer They universally cremate 1ans. : : se diner =k 7 = - as formerly Art he Hodge, F. W., 4 ae range ae in times use mud, for winter ipiectrag ; P oo 4 i Career : ae oe bel Thdiana of Lower Galitarpia in ii ee see the translation of Father Jacob ape ede aid 1864. : Report of the Smithsonian Institution, for h centu ride ie sre a and ee size are well proportioned, while the females appear to ‘oiecs do so much resemble . ico. the males are fully up to and in some cases rather tA sa cS aa Poa Cocopas are a division of the Yuman fami earlier lived on the Rio ich i -5 and Colorado five leagues wen period they also extended into a Ato w ail the mountains of Lower Califor nia, hence were confined almost excl co. The tribe was once very strong in to have been well liked by his hosts, and es et e ee were loth to see him return, but, fearing that his identity a two in and, voyage, discovered, he determined upon a return e him, and a half, with the rapid current of the river assisting anxious but well board on all found he where ships, his to returned on account of his prolonged absence. d to make a secon d The companions of Alarcon were not dispose ee +99 The the name of Xalisco. The distance of Acapuleo from explain the considerable lapse of time before Alarcon was ready no ¢ oo Alarcon would journey, except a negro slave, to whom, however, petit Simpson, only ten days’ march to Cibola, but the region to be alle ‘ oe He tried to prevail upon his soldiers to crossed was a wilderness. je but not a man would eae Coronado, to news carry the ie J. H. Smithsonian Report for Natividad, and then identified this Santia1869, p. 315, accepted the start from La go with the port of Compostella, which was well known under Cibola, and later he heard the details of the death of Estevan and, much to his concern, that men with beards like himself, armed with swords and firearms, calling themselves Christians, had arrived 2 arrows. inside with mud, coming to the river in the summer to plant and returning after the harvest was over. A mountain was pointed out to him where lived a people who were at war with them, and who dressed in deer-skins, which they sewed with needles made from the bones of the deer, and who traded these hides for corn. Alarcon now began to hear reports of Cibola, which he was told was distant a journey of thirty days. Further on he heard the story of the death of Estevan and ALARCON HEARS REPORTS OF CIBOLA that of the hounds which had acHe also met companied him. AND OF THE DEATH OF ESTEVAN with natives who had visited Er ee and 181 5 clubs and bows CORONADO er They carried wooden On his way up the river Alarcon maintained strictly his attitude of peace, distributed little crosses among the natives, who now crowded to the river banks to See him, and, day after day, they helped to drag his boats against the current. In conversation with some of the Indians, Alarcon learned of an ancient tradition to the effect that in a distant country there lived white and bearded men like himself. He met with many tribes along the river, with a great variety of dialects. They lived on the mountain side in communal huts 1° made of wood and plastered VASQUEZ eet a ea next day he saw some Indians along the river bank, who at first seemed greatly frightened, but soon began making hostile threats. An arquebus was fired by one of the men to the terror of all except one or two old men, who showed no signs of fear. Alarcon landed and was struck in the chest by one of the old men, whereupon, not desiring trouble, he withdrew to his boat and continued up-stream and at night anchored in the middle of the river, as many of the Indians had gathered on its banks. These Indians were the Cocopas, who lived along the lower course of the Rio Colorado; they were gaily decorated with feathers and small sticks, rings and pendants hung from their ears and noses. Some were blackened with charcoal ; others were tattooed with fire, and all wore a bunch of feathers which hung from a cord which encircled the waist. The women were naked, except for two great bunches of feathers which hung in front and behind, and both men and women wore the hair cut short in front and down to the waist behind. FRANCISCO HISTORY a MEXICAN “a OF NEW ad a FACTS aad LEADING eeeE a 180 |