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[691] 'They defecate promiscuously near their huts; they leave offal of every character, dead animals and dead skins, close in the vicinity of their huts.' _Ind. Aff. Rept. Spec. Com._, 1867, p. 339; _Stratton's Capt. Oatman Girls_, p. 114; _Hardy's Trav._, p. 380.

[692] The Mojave 'arms are the bow and arrow, the spear and the club.'

_Sitgreaves' Zuni Ex._, p. 18. 'Armed with bows and arrows.' _Fremont and Emory's Notes of Trav._, p. 39. The Querechos 'use the bow and arrow, lance and s.h.i.+eld.' _Marcy's Army Life_, pp. 19, 23. 'The Apache will invariably add his bow and arrows to his personal armament.'

_Cremony's Apaches_, pp. 15, 75-6, 103, 189. 'Neben Bogen und Pfeilen fuhren sie noch sehr lange Lanzen.' _Mollhausen_, _Tagebuch_, p. 230.

'They use the bow and arrow and spear.' _Letherman_, in _Smithsonian Rept._, 1855, p. 293. 'Armed with bows and arrows, and the lance.'

_Backus_, in _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol. iv., p. 214. For colored lithograph of weapons see _Whipple, Ewbank, and Turner's Rept._, p. 50, in _Pac. R. R. Rept._, vol. iii. 'El armamento de los apaches se componen de lanza, arco y flechas.' _Cordero_, in _Orozco y Berra_, _Geografia_, p. 372. 'Las armas de los apaches son fusil, flechas y lanza.' _Garcia Conde_, in _Soc. Mex. Geog._, _Boletin_, tom. v., p.

315. 'Los Yumas son Indios ... de malas armas, muchos no llevan arco, y si lo llevan es mal dispuesto, y con dos o tres flechas.' _Garces_, in _Arricivita_, _Cronica Serafica_, p. 419; _Sedelmair_, _Relacion_, in _Doc. Hist. Mex._, serie iii., tom. iv., p. 851; _Alegre_, _Hist. Comp.

de Jesus_, tom. iii., p. 111; _Malte-Brun_, _Precis de la Geog._, tom.

vi., p. 399; _Parker's Notes on Tex._, p. 190; _Drew_, in _Ind. Aff.

Rept._, 1869, p. 105; _Odin_, in _Domenech_, _Jour._, p. 450; _Wislizenus' Tour_, p. 71; _Dewees' Texas_, p. 233; _Holley's Texas_, p.

153; _Brownell's Ind. Races_, p. 543; _Dragoon Camp._, p. 153; _Moore's Texas_, p. 33; _Ward's Mexico_, vol. ii., p. 602; _Muhlenpfordt_, _Mejico_, vol. ii., pt. ii., p. 421; _Lachapelle_, _Raousset-Boulbon_, p. 82; _Combier_, _Voy._, p. 224; _Brantz-Mayer's Mex., Aztec, etc._, vol.

ii., p. 123; _Thummel_, _Mexiko_, p. 444; _Peters' Life of Carson_, p.

452; _Cutts' Conq. of Cal._, p. 185; _Bartlett's Pers. Nar._, vol. i., pp. 328-9, 451; _Pages' Travels_, vol. i., p. 107; _Linati_, _Costumes_, plate xxii.; _Armin_, _Das Heutige Mexiko_, p. 274; _Mollhausen_, _Mormonenmadchen_, tom. ii., p. 152; _Figuier's Hum. Race_, pp. 480-2, with cut.

[693] 'Their weapons of war are the spear or lance, the bow, and the laso.' _Hughes' Doniphan's Ex._, p. 173.

[694] Among 'their arms of offence' is 'what is called Macana, a short club, like a round wooden mallet, which is used in close quarters.'

_Hardy's Trav._, p. 373. 'War clubs were prepared in abundance.'

_Stratton's Capt. Oatman Girls_, p. 176. Die Apachen 'nur Bogen, Pfeile und Keulen.' _Thummel_, _Mexiko_, p. 444. 'Their clubs are of mezquite wood (a species of acacia) three or four feet long.' _Emory's Rept. U.

S. and Mex. Boundary Survey_, vol. i., p. 108. 'Ils n'ont d'autre arme qu'un grand croc et une ma.s.sue.' _Soc. Geog._, _Bulletin_, serie v., No.

96, p. 186. 'Arma sunt ... oblongi lignei gladii multis acutis silicibus utrimque muniti.' _De Laet_, _Novus...o...b..s_, p. 311. 'Sus Armas son Flechas, y Macanas.' _Torquemada_, _Monarq. Ind._, tom. i., p. 681.

Among the Comanches: 'Leur ma.s.sue est une queue de buffle a l'extremite de laquelle ils inserent une boule en pierre on en metal.' _Soc. Geog._, _Bulletin_, serie v., No. 96, p. 193; _Mowry_, in _Ind. Aff. Rept._, 1857, p. 302.

[695] 'Mit vierstreifigen Strickschleudern bewaffnet.' _Mexikanische Zustande_, tom. i., p. 64. 'Sie fechten mit Lanzen, Buchsen, Pfeilen und Tamahaks.' _Ludecus_, _Reise_, p. 104. 'Une pet.i.te hache en silex.'

_Soc. Geog._, _Bulletin_, serie v., No. 96, p. 193; _Muhlenpfordt_, _Mejico_, tom. ii., p. 539; _Treasury of Trav._, p. 31; _Escudero_, _Noticias de Chihuahua_, p. 230; _Domenech's Deserts_, vol. ii., p. 272.

[696] The Querecho 'bows are made of the tough and elastic wood of the ”bois d'arc” or Osage orange (Maclura Aurantiaca), strengthened and reenforced with the sinews of the deer wrapped firmly around them, and strung with a cord made of the same material.' _Marcy's Army Life_, p.

24. The Tonto 'bow is a stout piece of tough wood ... about five feet long, strengthened at points by a wrapping of sinew ... which are joined by a sinew string.' _Smart_, in _Smithsonian Rept._, 1867, p. 418. The Navajo 'bow is about four feet in length ... and is covered on the back with a kind of fibrous tissue.' _Letherman_, in _Smithsonian Rept._, 1855, p. 293. The Yuma 'bow is made of willow.' _Emory's Rept. U. S. and Mex. Boundary Survey_, vol. i., p. 108. 'Langen Bogen von Weidenholz.'

_Mollhausen_, _Reisen in die Felsengeb._, tom. i., p. 124. Apaches: 'the bow forms two semicircles, with a shoulder in the middle; the back of it is entirely covered with sinews, which are laid on ... by the use of some glutinous substance.' _Pike's Explor. Trav._, p. 338. 'Los tamanos de estas armas son differentes, segun las parcialidades que las usan.'

_Cordero_, in _Orozco y Berra_, _Geografia_, p. 372; _Mollhausen_, _Tagebuch_, p. 360; _Malte-Brun_, _Precis de la Geog._, tom. vi., p.

453; _Whipple_, in _Pac. R. R. Rept._, vol. iii., p. 98; _Pattie's Pers.

Nar._, pp. 117, 149; _Palmer_, in _Harper's Mag._, vol. xvii., p. 450.

[697] The Apaches: 'Tous portaient au poignet gauche le bracelet de cuir ... Ce bracelet de cuir est une espece de paumelle qui entoure la main gauche, ... Le premier sert a amortir le coup de fouet de la corde de l'arc quand il se detend, la seconde empeche les pennes de la fleche de dechirer la peau de la main.' _Ferry_, _Scenes de la vie Sauvage_, p.

256. 'With a leather bracelet on one wrist and a bow and quiver of arrows form the general outfit.' _Smart_, in _Smithsonian Rept._, 1867, p. 418.

[698] The Coyoteros 'use very long arrows of reed, finished out with some hard wood, and an iron or flint head, but invariably with three feathers at the opposite end.' _Cremony's Apaches_, p. 103. Navajoes: 'the arrow is about two feet long and pointed with iron.' _Letherman_, in _Smithsonian Rept._, 1855, p. 293. The Querechos 'arrows are twenty inches long, of flexible wood, with a triangular point of iron at one end, and two feathers ... at the opposite extremity.' _Marcy's Army Life_, p. 24. The Apache 'arrows are quite long, very rarely pointed with flint, usually with iron. The feather upon the arrow is placed or bound down with fine sinew in threes, instead of twos.... The arrow-shaft is usually made of some pithy wood, generally a species of yucca.' _Henry_, in _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol. v., p. 209. 'Sagittae acutis silicibus asperatae.' _De Laet_, _Novus...o...b..s_, p. 311. 'Arrows were ... pointed with a head of stone. Some were of white quartz or agate, and others of obsidian.' _Whipple_, in _Pac. R. R. Rept._, vol.

iii., p. 98. The Tonto 'arrows ... are three feet long ... the cane is winged with four strips of feather, held in place by threads of sinew ... which bears on its free end an elongated triangular piece of quartz, flint, or rarely iron.' _Smart_, in _Smithsonian Rept._, 1867, p. 418.

The Lipan arrows 'have four straight flutings; the Comanches make two straight black flutings and two red spiral ones.' _Domenech's Deserts_, vol. ii., p. 270; _Sitgreaves' Zuni Ex._, p. 18; _Tempsky's Mitla_, p.

82; _Ha.s.sel_, _Mex. Guat._, p. 276; _Conder's Mex. Guat._, vol. ii., p.

76; _Mollhausen_, _Tagebuch_, p. 360; _Mollhausen_, _Fluchtling_, tom.

iv., p. 31; _Pattie's Pers. Nar._, p. 149.

[699] The Apache 'quivers are usually made of deer-skin, with the hair turned inside or outside, and sometimes of the skin of the wild-cat, with the tail appended.' _Henry_, in _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol. v., p.

210. 'Quiver of sheep-skin.' _Palmer_, in _Harper's Mag._, vol. xvii., p. 461. 'Quiver of fresh-cut reeds.' _Fremont and Emory's Notes of Trav._, p. 39. 'Un carcax o bolsa de piel de leopardo en lo general.'

_Cordero_, in _Orozco y Berra_, _Geografia_, p. 373; _Whipple, Ewbank, and Turner's Rept._, p. 31, in _Pac. R. R. Rept._, vol. iii.; _Tempsky's Mitla_, p. 80.

[700] 'The spear is eight or ten feet in length, including the point, which is about eighteen inches long, and also made of iron.'