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Show 10 BY PATH AND TRAIL. to the recesses and dark places of the Grand canyon or to the inaccessible cliffs where the Spaniards found them and called them " burrow people, " and where hundreds of years afterward the Americans discovered them and christened them " cliff dwellers." There are no records on stone or paper to tell us when these things happened; there is no tradition to in form us when the . DinnSs entered the land or when the devastation began. We only know that when the Span iards came into Arizona in 1539, the " Casa Grande," the great house of the last of the early dwellers, was a venerable ruin. The Apaches now increased and multiplied, they spread out and divided into tribes. One division trav eled south and settled along the slopes of the Bacatete mountains and in the valley of a river to which they gave their name. When this settlement took place we do not know, we only know that when Father Marcos de Nizza entered Sonora, the first of white men, in 1539, this tribe of the Apaches called themselves Yaqui, and possessed the land. So now you can understand why the Spaniards found the Yaquis tough customers to deal with and why the Mexicans after sixty years of intermittent war have not yet conquered them. The Yaqui claims descent from the wolf, and he has all the qualities and characteristics of the wolf to make good his claim. Centuries of training in starvation, of exposure to burning heat, to thirst, to mountain storms and to suffer ing have produced a man almost as hardy as a cactus, as fertile in defense, as swift of foot and as distinctly a type of the wilderness and the desert as his brother, the coyote. From the earliest Spanish records we learn that this |
