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so unclear here & no rain so it is very hard to raise anything but a good many along the river bank have their little patches of ground where they raise a little corn, squashes & mellons that they make grow my carrying water from the river to water them with. In the spring the river overflows and helps about watering their "farms," as the call them. They eat the mellons all up rinds, seeds and all. Mesquite trees grow here & bear a unclear of bean unclear forms the principle part of their unclear what they call "seven beans" & they are fond of them to eat. unclear they kill birds, ducks, white quail etc. These Indians are so good & peaceable that Uncle Sam does not have to unclear them to be good so gives them nothing. He does not give them clothes or blankets