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Show 129 [ 7] in latitu<l 32°, an<l it i clear from what prcccclc~, that it n1u:t be nearly onr d<'grce further :outh. Do you think that f may in my sketch ~ 't it down at about latitude 3 I ' ? 4th. The culti\ ation of cotton i~ one of grrat genrml importance. As now informPd, I believe that, indl'pcndcnt of va.ril'tit''~, there ar but two distin ·t specie.: the blark seed, which is th I n ti\' Amer ican, and fonnd as such no wher' el-;<·, and the gre<'n sc ~d , which adheres to th<' staple, of Asiatic origin, tht~n< · c· bro ug-ht to the Levant an<l the Mediterranean, and imp ortc<l into Not th America, of which it wa~ not a native. l cannot obtain in this city a opy of ]~omplanl's great bt)tanical \\ ork, whil'h would lun c thro\\ n much light on th<.: subject. I wish now to know, wheth<'r you took any notice of th cotton cultivated by th Pimo. , an<l what spcrics it was '? I presume that it was not a native of that rc~gion, and that th seed must haY· b ('11 imported from Mexico . I now proceed to that whi<'h relates to the Indians, who arc the principal ohj ·cts of my researches. 1st. I have compared your vocabulary of the Co<'o Mari<·opa. with those of the four Mexican languages in my posst>ssion, and of thirty-two well asccrtainecl families or Indians, living within the Unit c d States or f u r the r n or t h , an d h a v c fo u n d n o res em h 1 an c t I wit h either. It is to me a quite nrw languagt> , but there is a n~markald' wonl. .llpaclte is the word for rnan; and judging by analog) from s v 'ral other lndian lan guagrs, they should be Aparh ·s or uelnnginf; to that family. Thus, for in . tancc, amongst the Algonquin tribes, the names a.sumrd by two of tht~m, I llinoiq and Liuno Linap, arc cvicl~ntly derivc<l from Linno, a man. Jl o\\ evrr this may be, I wish to hav' some further inl'ormation respecting that tri bt~; to know, with as much pre ·ision as you can, the quart 'r whence they came; th ir present location in ref'c~rrtu·c to the Pimos, an<l particular I y w heth ' r and what they do c ulti vatc; also ; whether they are wilder than th Pimos, and whetbcr on good terms with th ·m. 2cl. You say that the accounts, by r<•port, of the lndians to the mouth of the Gila arc conflicting and or an ind ·finite character. This observation appli , to every information drrived from other ~our es. \V' haven yet only yagu' rumors. Yet l wish to ·ollect all tht>sc, as far as pos ible. A few legitimate infcren c'<'S may, perhaps, be drawn by comparing them top;ethrr; but it is principally for the purpose of enabl ing HH' l~) point out th most important object' of inquiry that I wish to be thus informed. You will, therefore, obli~c me by communicating such rough noh·s as you may have taken on that subj<~et, and also what were tLt abodes and oc~ upation. of lh(' few scattered Ind ians whom you met on your JOurney. (a.) Have you, by any tlirccl ol>~crvation, asccrtainc<l within :30' th posi ,i\c l on~it ude, in ref ren ct1 to UrccnwiC'h, of an_y point on th Rio del Norte or Yicinity which may sene as a starting poinr 'l There must b some kind of a cliYidinr...r.., ridcnr c wiJich. etmnt<.~s the water ~ o1 lh<.' t iY< r Gila from the waters that 'mpty into t 11r bulf o 1 \J a 1 i J or 11 i <L From \\ hat you say of Col mu· 1 Con' ... ." , t out c, f would infer that he left the Hio Norte a ::;hort <.llstauce abo\ c ~J ~ |
