THE ROMANCE OF MONTEREY
man’s classification as respects civilization is Lower Savagery, Middle Savagery, Upper Savagery, Lower Barbarism, Upper Barbarism and Civilization; and he says that the California Indian “ranged from a state of Upper Savagery to that of Lower Barbarism.”
They lived close to nature. Aside from to have the Santa advanced to the point of thatched huts, they lived mainly in the open, in summer finding a sufficient shelter under a friendly tree, and in winter having a tepee made of poles banked with earth, with an opening at the top for the smoke to get out and the air to get in, and a slit at the side for entrance. In the matter of diet, they anticipated the mod- ern cult of raw food dietitians. They did a little cooking
