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PEKU To UBBOCKS,
Master of the Uncle John.
tcoEREsPoSDEScE OF THE FREE PREss.l
" The Allaquois of the Klamath"

tcoFREsPoSDENcE OF THE FREE PREss.l
"The Allaquois of the Klamath"
SWEET LAUREL GRovE,"1
klamath River, Cal, Feb. |, 1855.
To II. Editor ef the Free Press
Presuming that what information you may have
received respecting the Indian tribes Of this part Of
California, is as conflicting ms meagre, will givo
you account Of their peculinrites and GUS
toms-appending brief account of the present war,
and the late massacre Of miners.
These lndirus. and the piyscrs Of Middle ami
Southern California, though their customs are ia
many respects similar, really distinct tacos-I
say races because the dissmilarty is nearly if not
quite rs great as between the European aud African.
Of that most degraded species OF the being human,
| the Digger, it is hardly too much to say that there
is trait by which they can be distinguished from
the lowest Of the brute creation ; they human
only in form, and, indeed scarcely that. iilth is
the Diggcr's natural clcmont-as necessary to his
existence, to all appearances, air and watc7cat-
ing it, drinking it, aud breathing it. and filth of
which you Of the Green Mountains eau have 90 r-,
/ sihlp ronrcutiop w. -t'.' - ptH'NtH Il N'l'tOH
log, as a Vermont hog is beneath white man to
compare them together would be gross injustice to
the whole gruntins fraternity, and should do it.
could not but regard myself as obcc, Of the
tai cnmity of all hosiom after, aud suffer
keen renor.e at the sight Of .parerb. or dish Of
ham and eggs, as ever old Winton experienced while
pursued by the skull and bones Of fair Eustace.
The California wandcror who has prospcctcd it,
in the old mines aud has felt that sense Of leerada-
ton that all must feel discovering themselves al
lied, by similarity of legs and arms, to detcsta-
bic class Of beings the Digeers, arriving here
NAV we'll look amazed and dolirbcd on tbc graceful
forms Of the {. AlIoouoi,, Of tho klamath In
height they nvero uerhans five feet seven or eight
inches cbc.t decn and full I,h. hoo,,,if,,Iy round.
cd md rcu.cuior AND cur,o,,,ces i,, In mos, ror,
.ro rool1, ric,,i,. ,bo- o-o in fac. tho 6ro,, ord
noblest 1ooin. s7ecnens If the human form divine
rboro c,.o- mo, ,ri,+ To bo soon a. flo bcst ,d.
VANTAGE. however. one .hould visit them n. their
roncbcs
In the selection Of sites for their r.ne,,e. vbi,h
are aiwavs in groups Of from three to half dozen.
in the ranches themselves though in.iocd r-nitiye
enough, and their little decorations; ia the manu-
facfurc Of bows arrows, ouivcrs, baskets, and the
thousand other contriynnccs Of ,oyarc life there is
| manifested degree Of reCucrcnt md tas,e for
beauty and cleanliness, scarce to he expectcd in
savage, who. until quite recently. had never seen
the face OF tho white man Indeed, a, FAR rs have
observed, in the cleanliness Of their pcrson., and
their taste for the b,auti,,I" they fa- excel tho
whites who have come among them with their
+" strong waters, and their blosnbclpv. Tho ranch
is constructed Of rough slsl.-.plt. ,unposc. from
logs bv wod,csstrorclvr f, stoned bv twisted ,bonrs
to s,,rportors nrropred around the inner and outer
sides and rs further ,ro,ection. numerous twjrs
in an uori-b, nositiop arc Iashed or,un. the roof
is made of the same material. For a pla~o Of in