CHAPTER XXXVII. 



Pi-Nole" turns his Toes up A sad Scene A Privilege of Chiefship Indian 

 Impulses" Hold, enough ! "The End. 



ACCOMPANIED by a sufficient cavalry escort to ensure 

 against any danger of possible complications arising from 

 another Indian " affair," we returned the three chiefs of the 

 Apache- Yumayas according to promise, and parted with our 

 old foes now friends with many mutual protestations of 

 admiration and regard, and with a small present of tobacco, 

 &c., from us to them on our own private account. 



We had seen the last, excepting one sad scene, of any of 

 that tribe of Indians ; the " exigences of the service " soon 

 after causing our removal from the district. 



The melancholy interview referred to, one especially so 

 for poor Pi-Nole', took place some little time after the con- 

 clusion of the Apache-Yumayas treaty, when it was sup- 

 posed all the Indians of that tribe had collected on their 

 reservation, and thus came to pass. While engaged on a 

 general scout we struck quite fresh Indian signs moccasin 

 tracks and, following them at a gallop, dashed through a 

 broad belt of chaparral down an open glade, right into a 



