After church they would gamble, and they often lost everything, even wives and children.

They were low, brutal, unintelligent, with an exceedingly limited vocabulary and an unbounded appetite.

A man is as he eats, and, as some one says, "If a man eats peanuts he will think peanuts." "There was nothing that could be swallowed and digested which the San Diego Indian would not eat.

Snakes, half roasted and even raw, were toothsome dainties.

The horned toad and the lizard had favorite places at each repast.