[Was the royal suckling or Prince ever carried down into the neighboring Grand Canyon by the beneficient being, his mother? Was he a =shao hao= (as the Chinese might say) or little Child of the Sun? Did he ever see the Cliff Palace? Were he and his people connected with the cave and cliff-dwellings? And when he retired from the Canyon did he fail to take with him a Lute?] If the royal suckling (or =ju=) of the Chinese account ever actually lived in the neighborhood of the Grand Canyon, or in the vicinity of Pimo, and was connected with a restless or troubled nation of Cliff Dwellers or stone-house builders, why should not the Indians have some traditional, even if but hazy recollection of both the suckling and his imperial mother? The forefathers of the Pimos must have beheld them, and it is difficult to suppose that the ancient legendary knowledge has completely evaporated from the aboriginal memory. As we have learned the construction of the Casas Grandes at Pimo is connected with the advent or movements of an intelligent, even if harassed race of Builders who owed allegiance to a Princess or her child. And if it is a fact that in a time of famine the royal lady fed the ancestors of the Pimos, we wonder not that the nation has enshrined her image within its ceaseless, throbbing heart. The hill-top on which she gave birth to her suckling is remembered to the present hour and was pointed to by the Pimo interpreter when telling the American General about the merciful being who fed the hungry in a time of famine (and perhaps had relieved or cheered his own ancestor.) Let us not overlook or snub the fact that Pimo--the Pimo of "the region beyond the Eastern Sea" is actually mentioned in the same breath with the Grand Canyon and the Gulf. It is represented by characters numbered 9 and 10 in the extract from the ancient Chinese volume, now set before the patient and intelligent reader who appreciates or perceives the difficulties connected with the present investigation. The last column (reading from right to left) consists of 12 characters, which express the following sense: =Ta=--=Hg=--east--south--corner--=has=--=shan= (mountain or height)--called--=Pi mo=--=ti=--=kiu=. The 11th term, =ti=, stands for "place;" and a =kiu= is a level-topped hill. As it is also called a =shan= (see No. 7), the =kiu= should be a prominent eminence having a level space on top. The name =Pi-mo= is expressed by putting =Pi=, which signifies "skin" or "case," along with =mo=, which simply stands for "mother." A mother, or a maternal case is connected with the =Pi-mo kiu= or level-topped hill. Is such an eminence to be seen in the vicinity of Pi-mo? Has it a flat summit? Are there any signs that it was inhabited by the queen of the Builders? The Pimo Indian told the general that on the hill-top in the vicinity--in the Lower Gila Valley--a female ruler gave birth to a child. Is there any foundation for the legend? Where is her house? [Illustration]