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design of the writer of this short description to presume to start a new one he proposes to follow the majority in its verdict until ethnologists, or other scientists, arrive at a settlement of the open question. 
Be that as it may it is a notable fact that the ancient Assyrians' peculiar manner of curling the hair still obtains among the Mohaves and certain old stone carving in the dark recesses at the base of "Dead Mountain" - the Hades of the Mohaves - has quite a family resemblance with the hieroglyphics of the Egyptian Isis and Osiris. 
Whatever the ancient Mahhaos - in Spanish Mojaves and rendered Mohaves in our vernacular - may have been the present remnant of this once powerful tribe numbers, as nearly as it can be ascertained, a little more than 3,000, part of whom are now living on the Colorado Indian Reservation about 100 miles below Camp Mojave and the rest in the valley named after them in the immediate vicinity of the post to which they look for support against their [[fiercer?]] neighbors.
They are peacefully engaged in agricultural pursuits and entirely self supporting, hence, as far as they are concerned, no necessity exists for the Indian Reservation at which they are supposed to be fed. 
These Indians are looked upon as the finest, physically, on the American Continent, surpassing even the Sioux in manly appearance - 
As already stated they are remarkably docile and peaceful, there being but one instance on record in which they became engaged in actual hostilities with the regular forces of the United States. This was in 1856 when some emigrants who had helped themselves to some corn and melons belonging to the Indians were attacked by them and one or two of the whites killed. This led to a fight between a detachment of soldiers under Captain [Lewis Addison] Armistead, then of the Sixth Infantry, and a stronger body of Mohaves in which the Indians came out best and the troops would have fared