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harassipg his people cruelly. No longer ago than the last 

 moon they had killed fourteen of his braves, and carried off 

 their women and children prisoners. On the other hand 

 were the whites, who were getting stronger and more 

 numerous every day. Between the two, though his warriors 

 were brave and wise, the tribe, his children, would be 

 crushed into nothing. He remembered the time when all 

 the world feared the great Yumayas nation ; now, they were 

 only a little handful; but if he could see his people settled 

 on a reserve at peace with and protected by the whites, as 

 the Mojaves were, he would die glad. He himself had 

 always wished for peace between his nation and the whites, 

 but his young men were ambitious and would steal horses 

 and kill people, because the women admired them for so 

 doing : that had made all the trouble. He feared it would 

 be difficult to persuade the young warriors to make and 

 keep a peace. This is what should be done. In one 

 moon's time, his son Pah-Sqaul would go to the rancho of 

 the red-headed man on the Agua Tame'na with all the chief 

 men and warriors of the tribe, and .we should meet them 

 there, and settle all things. In the meantime he would be 

 able to talk to all his children and persuade them to make 

 peace and go on a reserve. We must bring a present of 

 meat and flour, and such other things as they would get 

 when on a reserve, so as to make their stomachs our friends 

 and induce them to go on one ; and plenty too, for their 

 wives and children would be with them, and be much 

 hungry, but we must not bring any soldiers with us, as they 

 would be frightened of them and a lot more, unnecessary 

 to repeat. 



