CHAPTER XXXII. 



The three Rancheros The two W.'s Our Arrangements A military Picnic 

 Preparations to receive the Apaches The Indians arrive A War- 

 party X. 's Speech Pah-Squal's Reply A Feast. 



WHEN, after leaving the encampment of the Apache- 

 Yumayas' chief, we found ourselves on the level lava plain, 

 we directed our course immediately across it, so as to strike 

 into the cover at a place where we should not be expected 

 to do so ; and, when out of sight of the plain, swung half 

 round and started for the rancho of " The red-headed man " 

 that nickname stuck. The rancho was about twenty 

 miles from us, and situated in a wide, deep, " box " canon 

 a canon with perpendicular walls through which flowed 

 the Rio Tame'na. The red-headed man was an old ac- 

 quaintance of ours, a bold Kentuckian who had come out 

 to Arizona to seek for gold ; and who, rinding none, or next 

 to none, had turned farmer. Associated with him in the 

 enterprise of establishing a rancho under difficulties were 

 two gentlemen, old friends of the author's ; in fact, one of 

 them had been a mining partner of his, and was a son of 

 a distinguished ex-governor of Missouri. The other, old 



