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on the Colorado, called Coh-whyl-chah.  She knew nothing of them beyond the fact of their existence.  Are not these the Co-hu-il-las!

Above all these and extending back easterly, come the great Ute nation.  The upper Colorado Indians have among the Ute Indians and among [[underline]]Mountain men[[/underline]], the reputation of being fierce warriors.  The whole race of Colorado Indians are perfect in form and generally of good features.  I have never seen men or women of such beautifully formed bodies.  Elsewhere there is little or no deformity except a hip disease probably syphilitis occasionally occurs.  Limbs generally well rounded and tapering, small and exquisitely formed hands and feet, and busts on the young women and girls to warm an anchorite.  There is no virtue among the women.  They are prostitutes from their youth up, but they have not the vices of stealing, or whiskey drinking so common among other tribes.  Venereal disease, probably introduced long ago from Mexico is common, but its form is comparatively mild though accompanied in almost every case by first and secondary symptoms.  It has not anything like the fatal effects of the same disease in Oregon or among the Islands of the Pacific.

The Cocopas, and Yumas are not hunters.