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Navaho in charging them on their ponies would often, after they 

 had shot an arrow, or saw that they were threatened by some 

 special Hopi warrior, turn their ponies around quickly and lower 

 themselves by the side of the pony, while they dashed away, but 

 often the Hopi still succeeded in shooting them even in that posi- 

 tion. 



The arms of the Navaho also consisted of bows, arrows, shields, 

 and war clubs, and some few had guns and pistols which they had 

 procured from the Spaniards. In the afternoon a small party of 

 Hopi succeeded in climbing the point of the mesa north-east of the 

 battle-field, called Shongohtoika. They were followed by some of 

 the Navaho warriors, but the latter soon had to give up the pursuit on 

 account of the many rocks and boulders that are scattered close to 

 the mesa. The party of Hopi remained at the edge of the mesa 

 looking down upon the battle-field. Here the nephew of Chiniwa 

 had in the meanwhile been shot in the foot so that he could not walk. 

 His uncle Chiniwa said to him: "You will probably not get away 

 here." "No, perhaps not," the young man answered, "but I want 

 at least to shoot some one yet." So he laid all his arrows that he 

 still had in his quiver on his lap and shot into the body of the Navaho, 

 when the latter at once surrounded him and killed him with their 

 lances and clubs, and tore from his body his buckskin and clothing. 

 In the meanwhile the men on the edge of the mesa counseled with 

 one another whether they should go down and assist their hard-pressed 

 brethren, but only three were willing. These went down and hid 

 behind rocks, towards which a party of Navaho was driven by a 

 party of Hopi. When the retreating Navaho had come within shoot- 

 ing distance of the three Hopi hidden behind the rocks, the latter 

 killed a number of them from their safe shelter. Hereupon the 

 Navaho scattered, giving the Hopi who were pursuing them an oppor- 

 tunity to also rush behind the rocks where they were greeted by their 

 three valiant brethren. All now ascended the mesa where they pro- 

 ceeded in a north-westerly direction along the edge of the mesa. 

 They were preceded by the party of Navaho who had pursued them 

 to the foot of the mesa, and who had in the meanwhile rounded on 

 their very swift ponies on the point of the mesa and ascended on the 

 point of the opposite side, but it seems that this party of Navaho 

 for some reason or other — because they were afraid, the Hopi say 

 — failed to attack them. All they did was to wave the buckskins, 

 clothing, etc., that they had taken from their slain brethren, and 

 mock them. 



The Hopi finally found a place where they could descend the 



