CAVE DWELLERS FOUND IN MEXICO.
A DISPATCH from Deming, New Mexico, says: "Lieutenant Schwatka has arrived here. His party has been successful beyond expectations in their explorations, and especially in Southern Chihuahua, where living cliff and cave dwellers were found in great abundance, wild as any of the Mexican tribes at the time of Cortez's conquest. The abodes they live in are exactly similar to the old, abandoned cliff dwellings of Arizona and New Mexico, about which there has been much speculation.429It was almost impossible to get near them, so wild and timid were they. Upon the approach of white people, they flee to their caves by notched sticks placed against the face of the cliffs, if steep, although they can ascend vertical stone faces if there are the slightest crevices for their fingers and toes. "These cliff dwellers are sun worshipers, putting their new-born children out in the full rays of the sun the first day of their lives, and showing many other forms of devotion to the great luminary. They are usually tall, lean, and well-formed, their skin being a blackish red, much nearer the color of the negro than the copper-colored Indian of the United States. "Schwatka claims that nothing has heretofore been known about these people, except by the half-Indian mountain Mexicans, and thinks his investigation will be of immense anthropological and archæological value. He estimates the cave and cliff dwellers to be from 3,000 to 12,000 in number, armed only with bows, arrows, and stone hatchets."—Scientific American.