Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 | Page 5

Mr. James Speyer, Mr. George W. Vanderbilt, Mr. William C.
Whitney, of New York; to Mr. Frederick L. Ames, Mrs. John L.
Gardner, Mrs. E. Mason, Mr. Nathaniel Thayer, Mr. Samuel D. Warren,
Dr. Charles G. Weld, of Boston; to Mr. Allison D. Armour and
Mr. Franklin MacVeagh, of Chicago; to Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, Mr. Frank
G. New. lands, Mrs. Abby M. Parrot, Mr. F. W. Sharon, of San
Francisco; to Mr. Adolphus Busch, of St. Louis; to Mr. Theo. W. Davis,
of Newport; and to the late Mr. E. L. Godkin.
Much valuable support or assistance I have also received from
Mrs. Morris K. Jesup; Mrs. Elizabeth Hobson, of Washington, D. C.;
Miss Joanna Rotch, of Milton, Mass.; Mrs. Henry Draper, of New York;
Mrs. Robert W. Chapin, of Lenox; the late Mr. E. L. Godkin; Professor
Alexander Agassiz; Professor F. W. Putnam, Curator of the American
Museum of Natural History in New York; Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, of
Philadelphia; Professor Franz Boas, Curator of the American Museum
of Natural History in New York; Dr. B. L. Robinson and Dr. M. L.
Fernald, of Harvard University; Professor J. A. Allen and Mr. L. P.
Gratacap, Curators of the American Museum of Natural History.
I am under obligation to Mr. Marshall H. Saville, Curator of the
American Museum of Natural History, especially for the placing of the
names of the ruins of Southern Mexico on one of the maps; to Miss
Alice Fletcher, of Washington, D. C., and Mr. Edwin S. Tracy for
transcribing from the graphophone three of the songs rendered in this
book, and to Mrs. George S. Bixby for aid in transcribing the native
music. Finally I desire to express my appreciation of the untiring
services of my private secretary, Mrs. H. E. Hepner.
The upper illustration on page 65 is a reproduction of a photograph
kindly furnished me by Mr. Frank H. Chapman, and the illustration in
Vol. I., pages 145-146, is made from a photograph acquired through the
late Dr. P. Lamborn. The illustration in Vol. II., pages 464-465, I owe

to the courtesy of Mr. D. Gabriel Castaños, of Guadalajara.
The coloured illustrations are represented as the objects appear when
the colours have been brought out by the application of water.
The maps do not lay claim to an accuracy which, under the
circumstances, it was impossible to obtain, but they will, I hope, be
found to be an improvement on the existing ones.
Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, who has just returned from the Hyde expedition,
informs me that in visiting the western part of Sonora he found pure
Opata spoken west of Rio de Sonora and north of Ures, _e.g_., in
Tuape.
Wherever dollars and cents are given Mexican currency is meant.
In the Indian Songs II., 10 and 18, I have made an attempt at rendering
the native words in English in such a form that the translations could be
sung, without, however, deviating from the original.
In the native words "x" should be given the sound of the Greek chi.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
Preparations for the Start--Our Dry Goods Relished by the Cattle--I
Become a "Compadre"--Beautiful Northern Sonora--Mexican
Muleteers Preferable in Their Own Country--Apache Stories--Signs of
Ancient Inhabitants--Arrival at Upper Yaqui River--Opata Indians now
Mexicanised--A Flourishing Medical Practice--Mexican
Manners--Rock-carvings--How Certain Cacti Propagate, Pages 1-16
CHAPTER II
A Remarkable Antique Piece--A New Species of Century
Plant--Arrival at Nacori, at the Foot of the Sierra Madre--Trincheras--A

Mammoth Tusk Secured--Climbing the Sierra Madre--A New Squirrel
Discovered--Solitude--Apache Monuments--Arrival at Upper Bavispe
River, Pages 17-40
CHAPTER III
Camping at Upper Bavispe River--Low Stone Cabins, Fortresses, and
Other Remains Indicating Former Habitation--The Animals Starve on
the Winter Grass of the Sierra and Begin to Give Out--A Deserted
Apache Camp--comfort at Last--The Giant Woodpecker--We Arrive at
the Mormon Settlements of Pacheco and Cave Valley, Pages 41-59
CHAPTER IV
A Splendid Field Prepared for Us by the Ancient Agriculturists of Cave
Valley--House Groups in Caves Along a Pretty Stream--Well-preserved
Mummies Found in Caves--More Trincheras--Our Excavations in
Caves and Mounds Confirm to the Mormons their Sacred Stories--We
Move to the Plains of San Diego--Visit to Casas Grandes and the
Watch-tower--Successful Excavations of the Mounds near San Diego,
Pages 60-98
CHAPTER V
Second Expedition--Return to the Sierra--Parrots in the
Snow--Cave-dwellings at Garabato, the most Beautiful in Northern
Mexico--A Superb View of the Sierra Madre--The Devil's Spine
Ridge--Guaynopa, the Famous Old Silver Mine--Aros River--On Old
Trails--Adventures of "El Chino"--Cure for Poison Ivy, Pages 99-117
CHAPTER VI
Fossils, and One Way of Utilising Them--Temosachic--The First
Tarahumares--Ploughs with Wooden Shares--Visit to the Southern
Pimas--Aboriginal Hat Factories--Pinos Altos--The Waterfall near
Jesus Maria--An Adventure with Ladrones, Pages 118-135

CHAPTER VII
The Uncontaminated Tarahumares--A Tarahumare Court in
Session--The Power of the Staff--Justice has its
Course--Barrancas--Excursion to the Gentiles--Tarahumare Costumes
Simple and Inexpensive--Trincheras in Use Among the Tarahumares,
Pages 136-155
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