ceeded without delay to the scene of the murder rival I fonnd that I should have but litile use for the wagon On my ar The work had been too thoronghly done. The camp had been fired, and the dead bodies of twenty-one wom lying seattered over the ground; those who had been wounded in the first instance had their brains or medicine, en and children werc beaten out with stones. Two of the squaws had been first rav ished, and then shot dead. One infant of some two months leg nearly hacked off. * I know from my own personal observations that, during the time the Indians were. in, after my arrival, they were rationed every three days, and Indians absent had to be aceounted for; their faces soon became familiar to me, and I eould at once tell whon was shot twice, and one any strange Indian eame in.

And I furthermore state that I have bcen among ncarly all tho tribes on the Pacifie coast, and that I have ncver seen any Indians who showcd the intclligence, honesty, and desire to learn manifestod by these Indians. I came among them greatly prejudiced against them; bat, after being with them, I compelled to admit that they were honest in their inten- tions, and really desired peace. was

This is not the only instance of eruel outrage committed by white men on the Apaches. In the Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners for 187I is the following letter from one of the Arizona pioneers, Mr. J. H. Lyman, of Northamp- ton, Mass. Mr. Lyman spent the years of 1840-41 among the Apaches, and thus briefly relates an occarrence whieh took place at a time when they were Americans going among them:

"The Indians were then, as now, hostile to the Mexicans of Sonora, and they friendly and cordial to all wero constantly making raids into the State