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Show FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. 363 charge of the children when I came to Salt Lake City to start business at my old trade. This I found would be difficult to do, as the trade had somewhat changed, and it would take time and capital to get a start. So I con-cluded to start on a project I had had in my mind for a number of years. That was to invent a better side- sad-dle than any yet in use and make the same adjustable to different- sized riders. This I have finally accomplished, after hard work and much more delay than I expected when I commenced. I will now give what I have formerly promised a short account of something I have learned about some of the Indian tribes I have visited. CHAPTER LIV. The Apache Indians Ideas Concerning God A Statement Concern-ing the Jesuits Treachery of Kerker Slaughter of the Apaches The Navajoes Colonel Chavez' Horse Race Loss of Govern-ment Horses War with this Tribe The Yaqui Tribe The Tarumaries A Peculiar Custom. THIS chapter will be devoted to what I have seen and learned about Apaches and other southern tribes. The common supposition is that the Apaches are by nature and desire a blood- thirsty people, and have always been so. This is a mistake, but it is a fact that we have to go back almost a century to find them a peaceable people. Their own story is that they were once vegetarians. They were so opposed to killing that they would say to |