Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-05-31

did the countnances of these human
 monstrosities, whose grotesque hide ousness was heightened by a uniform deformity of body and limb. Their bodies were short and round and of
 similar shape in front and back, while
 their arms were long and sinuous, the
 hands nearly reaching the ground
 when they stood in an upright position.
 The unusual shape of their feet, which
 were very long and possessed but two
 toes, one great toe extending fully an
 inch beyond the other, which had
 much the appearance of the other four grown together, from which, in
 deed, four claws or hooks protruded,
 rendered their approach to precipitous
 and seemingly inaccessible places
 quite easy.
 If were alarmed by the sudden
 appearance of the three little demon
 like dwarfs it may readily be imagined
 that my terror was intensified when
 others appeared in the gardens and on
 the sides of the precipices, until the
 number was forty or fifty. They
 scaled the bluffs without the slightest
 difficulty and directed their courses
 toward immense piles of loose lock,
 evidently previously provided, while
 their frightful, unearthlv yells in
 creased in vigor and rapidity of utter
 ance.
 It was but an instant until realized
 the dreadful peril to which I had in
 nocently exposed myself. The strange
 people were cliff-dwellers, and l re- called with that wonderful accuracy
 and promptness which imminent dan
 ger and sudden jeopardy impart. all
 the legends respecting the prehistoric inhabitants of the precipices of the southwest, and the successful methods
 by which they resented intrusion and
 repelled invasion-rolling huge rocks from the steep mountain sides upon
 the luekless individual or opposing hosts No doubt was left me as to the
 hostility of theIr intentions, and l ran
 with my utmost speed to the wickiup
 which the three dwarfs had just
 abandoned, it being situated in the
 widest part of the valley, and for this
 reason af'ording the greatest chance for temporary safety.
 My situation in that dismal canyon
 was scarcely an agreeable one-that
 valley of death. where the foot of
 white man never before trod, and
 where all trace of my tragic disap-
 pearance would be as completely lost
 to follow-man as though the earth had
 opened and swallowed me. What was
 before me was unknown, but the lit
 tie trail behind was as tightly blocked
 to egress by the menacing presence
 of the little fiends on the mountain
 sides commanding it as was the ascent
 of the perpendicular face of the mighty
 cliffs-an impossibility without the aid
 of wings.
 Notwithstanding gestures of friend
 ship and signals of amity that I made
 in hastily-formed intention to at
 tempt to conciliate and placate the
 enraged dwarfs, the din of their ter
 rifying gibberish increased in volume
 until 1t was worse than that of hun
 dred delirious baboons. The horrible
 distorted figures hurried rapidly along
 the bluffs to a pile of loose stone di-
 rectly above me, from which several
 rock were sent bounding down the
 cliffs, missing me but few feet, while
 another party, on the opposite wall,
 was attempting tp disengage with
 their hands and wooden pries an im-
 mense mass of stone, the descent of
 which could only mean my complete
 annihilati0n.
 By this time I had regained my composure and confidence to a con siderable extent, and was able to exer- else better judgment. Feeling the vital importance of losing none oi the advantages which had been gained l selected as target goat which was feeding high up on the precipice above where the larger number o cliff-dwellers were assembled, and, talk ing careful aim, fired. The body o the dead animal bounded down the cliff and narrowly escaped striking one of the dwarfs, with the result tha ' the little people were paralyzed witt fear and lncapahle of immediate ac 2 tiOn. Being satisfied of this fact, ] started hurriedly to regain the trail by which l had entered the terrible val u ley and to return to the villages of thi U Yava-Supais. This course was fraugh |, with imminent risk, for should tn, frightful creatures see fit to resist m, T. retreat it would be most easy for then !. to assail and crush me on the danger ' GUS, tFeacherous path while I woul, ! be unable to use nay weapon in self defense.
 l, 1 had almost reached the narro, l. gorge which led to the trail when m T. apprehensions and fears were agai D. aroused by marked commotiol e among the people on the eff, who al !! peared to be laboring under ne' | excitement,and were crowding forwar 5t toward the trail
 At about the same instant that l' occurred tQ me that the attention ( ls the cliff dwellefs was diFeGted tQ al other object than myself, l heard t- cry, which, however discordant an Is disquieting it might be under othe IT. circumstances, differed so widely frol r. the screams of my foe as to fall upo 'd my ears as the sweetest music. .- moment later a naked black forn 'p covered with prespiration, emerge w from the gorge at the lower end of u Ill valley and rapidly approached m n Had it been my dearest relative, n as nearest friend, instead of the dir IT. Yava-Supai chief who on the previol 'n day swindled me out of dollar ', guiding nlR tQ bogus mine, l cou oi have been no more delighted ta 8 'st him. But the chief gave me no tin es for the expression of gratitude. Shou ed ing in unintelligible gibberish to u lp iffdwellers he virtually pushed n or through the gorge and hurried Il ng over the dizzy trail at pace whi' Ily rendered it very doubtful if my pc ke had been lessened in leaving the VI 'ur ley of the dwarfs. WheB Ws reach cir the Yava-Supai village the Indi, ng said he was made aware of the da nd gerous locality which I was in by t ps' sound of the discharge of my rifle, al Ill., came at full speed to my rescue. pm have seen the Albino or white I gre d,aas among the Moqui and Puet Iek tribes of New Mexico, but asids fri up the color of their complexions tn the do not differ from their race, { an physically strong and healthy and