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Show 224 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. quently visited by them. I have often observed them with lizards, and snakes, frogs and other reptiles, strung on a stick over their shoulders, endeavoring to sell or trade for articles of clothing. At certain seasons they dig for roots to subsist on. They go about perfectly nude, with the exception, sometimes only, of a piece of deer-skin around their loins. They are expert thieves, and great vigilance must be used to prevent them from robbing you before your very eyes. The Indians on the Muddy River are a little higher in the scale of civilization. At one of their villages at which I rested, I found corn and wheat under excellent cultivation, the women grinding it between stones. This improved state is owing to the Mormons, who travel continually on this route to and from San Bernandino. From them they obtained the seed, and several implements of agriculture. The chief and half-dozen others in this village had been baptized in the Mormon faith. The Mormons have acquired the Piede language, and have collected many of the words and sentences, which they have printed. The following is an illustration of a few sentences arranged in the Piede dialect: Cot-tam-soog-away, I don't understand. Huck-ku-bah-pe-qua ? Where are you going ? Im-po-pe-shog-er, What are you hunting ? Cot-tam-nunk-i, I don't hear. Koot-sen-pungo-pe-shog-er, . . . . I am hunting cattle. Huck-ku-bah-pah ? Where is the water ? Pah-mah-ber-karry The water is over yonder. Topets-karry, There is a spring there. Huck-ku-bah-kah-bah-poni-koe, . Where did you see the horse? ' saw the horse at the foot of the mountain. Kah-ponikee-kan-e-gab, -J |