" Among the Pimas there is no incentive to avarice, and the accumulation of large personal fortunes.

The dead are buried in the ground in silence, and you can never get the Pimas to pronounce the name of a dead man.

The Pimas have many customs resembling the Jews, especially the periodical seclusion of women.

I concluded to make a scout up country and see what was going on among the Indians, and as there were no troops at my command I organized a company of Pimas and Maricopas as scouts.

The only "sign" we saw was cut on a tree,twenty-four Americans and twenty-four arrows pointed at them, which the Pimas interpreted to me as the number of Americans the Apaches threatened to kill in retaliation.

The Pimas of Arizona, actuated by apparently the same motives that led the more eastern tribes to endeavor to prevent contact of earth with the corpse, adopted a plan which has been described by Capt. F. E. Grossman, and the account is corroborated by M. Alphonse Pinart and Bancroft.

Captain Grossman's account follows: The Pimas tie the bodies of their dead with ropes, passing the latter around their neck and under the knees, and then drawing them tight until the body is doubled up and forced into a sitting position.