Note 12 — VI. THE EMPLOYMENT OF EXCREMENT IN FOOD BY SAVAGE TRIBES.
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“Peuplé de sauvages qui vont tous nus, et qui mangent leurs propres ordures.”—(Castañeda, in Ternaux, vol. ix. p. 156.)
Castañeda de Nagera accompanied the expedition of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, which entered Arizona, New Mexico, and the buffalo country in 1540-1542. Part of this expedition, under Don Garcia Lope de Cardena, went down the Colorado River, which separates California from Arizona; while another detachment, under Melchior Diaz, struck the river closer to its mouth, and crossed into what is now California.