But they value very highly any kind of cloth -- no matter how poor it might be -- since in exchange for some that I had, I received some furs and nets." Costansó, while branding the Kumeyaay as "lazy idlers," noted that "they have bestowed great affection upon Don Pedro Fages and they also respect him very much. They have invited him at various times to be with their women, an expression of friendship that the rest have not merited. "

Costansó recounts a demonstration Fages arranged to prove the superiority of Spanish firearms. Armed