woven cloth with fluffy-ruffles and fol-de-rols of woven blue
jay and bluebird and hummingbird feathers round his neck. Zeke's people
understood weaving. Also Zeke wears on his feet sandals of yucca fiber
and matting. I don't know what our ancestors wore--according to
evolutionists, it may have been hair and monkey pads. So if you
understood as much about Zeke's history as you do about the Pyramids,
you'd settle some of the biggest disputes in theology and ethnology and
anthropology and a lot of other "ologies," which have something more or
less to do with the salvation and damnation of the soul.

How is it known that Zeke is a type of a race, and not a freak specimen
of a dwarf? Because other like specimens have been found in the same
area in the last ten years; and because the windows and the doors of the
cave dwellings of the Gila would not admit anything but a dwarf race.
They may not all have been twenty-four and thirty-six and forty inches;
but no specimens the size of the mummies in other prehistoric dwellings
have been found in the Gila. For instance, down at Casa Grande, they
found skeletons buried in the gypsum dust of back chambers; but these
skeletons were six-footers, and the roofs of the Casa Grande chambers
were for tall men. Up in the Frijoles cave dwellings, they have dug out
of the _tufa_ dust of ten centuries bodies swathed in woven cloth; but
these bodies are of a modern race five or six feet tall. You have only
to look at Zeke to know that he is not, as we understand the word, an
Indian. Was he an ancestor of the Aztecs or the Toltecs?

Though you cannot go out to the Gila by motor to a luxurious hotel,
there are compensations. You will see a type of life unique and
picturesque as in the Old World--countless flocks of sheep herded by
soft-voiced peons. It is the only section yet left in the West where
freighters with double teams and riders with bull whips wind in and out
of the narrow canyons with their long lines of tented wagons. It is still
a land where game is plentiful as in the old days, trout and turkey and
grouse and deer and bear and mountain lion, and even bighorn, though the
last named are under protection of closed season just now. I'm always
afraid to tell an Easterner or town dweller of the hunt of these old
trappers of the box canyons; but as many as thirteen bear have been
killed on the Gila in three weeks. The altitude of the trail from Silver
City to the Gila runs from 6,000 to 9,