The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

THE PIMO INDIANS.
the mission of San Xavier, in the Papago settlement; but
for the safety of the animals, it was thought best to leave
them with Colonel Robinson, at Tucson, who very kindly
consented to look after them.
Arrangements having been concluded, we embarked about
.six o'clock in the morning, in one of Butterfield's coaches,
for the Pimo villages, some ninety miles distant. Our
ride thither was a most uninteresting one, beneath the
scorchling rays of the sun, over a hard, gravelly soil, cov ered with a thick growth of niesquit and cactus; in fact,
the whole country was little better than a desert, the only
water found upon the route being obtained from the wells
which had been dug at the mail stations, for the convenience
of watering their stock.
About daylight on the following morning, we arrived at
the villages; and, after resting a little, and refreshing our selves with a very comfortable sort of a breakfast, we
started out sight-seeing.
The Pimos have lived upon and cultivated this spot for
more than three hundred years. Marco de Niza found them
here as far back as 1539. Father Kino also mentions them
in his travels; and Savidra, who spent much of his life
among the Indians of Sonora and Arizona, speaks of their
being directly descended from the Montezuma Indians; and
in proof of this assertion, cites the cutting of the hair square
across the forehead, and permitting it to grow long behind.
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