Mohave County miner., 1884-03-02
Legendary Lore Relating to
 Volcanic Disturb anceS.

Pueblo Indians known as the "White Indians," many of them having light hair and blue eyes. They are probably of European origin, are
 house dwellers, live in communities
 and are governed by a chief elect,
 whose word is law. They are indus
 trious, peaceable, follow agrlculture
 and pastoral pursuits, and make and
 wear woolen goods. In the manu-
 facture of the Poncho or Serape,
 which Is worn by the Indian and
 Mexican, they excel, and exchange
 these products for such articles as
 they require and do not produce. A
 horn Is blown at 6 a. m. as a signal
 to commence thelr daily labors, and
 agaln at night to cease. Their
 houses are raised from the ground,
 with doors on the roof and ladders
 used in place of stairs or steps to
 enter. They have no written Ian
 guage, but their historical legends
 are handed down from father to son.
 The history of their origin is the
 first thing they learn their children,
 as soon as they are old enough to to understand and commit to memo ry. Tbis they are very jealous of not m lking known to strangers, or even to other tribes. They guard it as a tribal secret with penalties for divulging. A wsll known frontiers man, Captain JoLn Moss, (uow de ceased) stood in high favor, not only with this tribe, but with all the In dian tribes of Western North Amer ica. He spoke 14 different Indian understood theIr signals of war and peace, and was trusted by them as trusty friend. His Indian name was universally known as ''Narrowguinep" (never die). He learned their legendary secret and it to the writer It was in brief as follows,
 Their forefathers, with their wives and families. came to Arizona from | over the Big Waters" Ghe ocean,. i They found fertile country covered, with vegetation, desiduous trees, | fruit trees, berries, wild grasses, wild game. ..and birds in abundance. The country was we'll watered and stocked 1 with great variety of fish. They soon multiplied and increased; they cultivated the soIl, became numer- )us and were happy and well con- .ented.
 4 terrible calamity overlook them; be sun took fire and burnt up; the leat was uncomfortable; trees and were consumed; the ground rocked to and fro like roubled sea; the rivers dried up: darkness spread over the land, ana continued for many moons. They rawled into caves and dug holes in lie ground for shelter. but most of hem perished. When a new suu vas born 1t was again light, but .beir hitherto beautiful country was . barren waste: thelr towns destroy d, and houses Tn ruins. The re few survivors assembled ogether and with their wives a2d hildren migrated to tue low lands the "big rivers (the Col 'rado an1 GIla) nd commenced lie new. They increasel again and 'ecame numerous and prosperous ,e"pIe; but the condition of the country had changed, there were no opger beautiful running streams of lear water in the interior. Their nain supply was from the big rivers, he Colorado and Yuma, from which , hey brought water for irrigatiug through canals and aque Iucts to their farms.
 An extensive system of canals and . queducts is still to be seen in Arizo- 1 Ia and California, on the Coloradol ,ottom, and in San Bernardino 1 ounty, but the history of the build { ITS is unknown.
 One day, without warning, a tribe : { ferocious Indians from the north 'eept down upon them, and as they were unaccu toned to war-like pur- uits, soon conquered, despoiled and ' them. A portion escaped { nd fed to the mountain ranges, and lug habitations i'll almost inacce8si- ,le places in the stony cliffs that border the ''blg river" (Colorado), he walls of which were nearly per oendicular; but they ascended and ( to their cliff dwellings by , teps cut in the solid rock, and sub- iStod On fish from tha river Tn