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through, so that the Punas fought on foot. Without the advantage 

 of surprise the ardor of the hitter soon cooled, and being of divided 

 opmion as to the ad\asability of pursuit, they permitted the enemy to 

 escape with a loss of but 6. Tlieu this by no means inconsiderable 

 body of warriors marched bravely home again. Further accounts of 

 more sanguinary struggles arc given in The Narrative, in the present 

 paper, page 38. 



Three Pima women kuowii to Sika'tcu went out on the mesa to 

 gather cactus fruit. Another woman was asked to accompany them, 

 but at first she refused to go because slie had had a bad dream. 

 After the others had started she set out to follow them and ran into 

 a trap set for them at the hills south of the villages. The four cap- 

 tives were forced to walk naked before their enemies. Two were 

 soon killed bj' the wayside. That night two Apaches were detailed 

 to watch the other two women. These men relaxed their vigilance 

 toward morning, whereupon the captives gathered all the bows and 

 arrows of the party and tlirew them over the cliff. They also tried 

 to strangle their captors and partially succeeded. They then made 

 their escape. One of these brave \vomen is yet living. 



It was customary for the Pimas to attack the Apaches at night or 

 at the earliest dawn. This required carefvil scouting during the pre- 

 ceding da}^ in order to locate the position of the enemy, who were 

 always at least equally alert and wary, without betraying their ()\\^l 

 presence. 



On one of their raids toward the east a war party came upon a 

 young Apache and liis wife in the Sierra Tortilla. The man escaped, 

 but the woman, named Ilitalu'l, was captured and brought to the 

 villages, where she was questioned tlu-ough La'lall, an Apache woman 

 who had been captured in childhood. The chief asked about the 

 attack that had recently been made iipon a party of Pimas at Ta-a'tft- 

 kam. She replied, "I shall tell you the truth about that. I shall 

 never take my life to my people again. I am here to my death." 

 She was soon led to the open ground east of the Double buttes, where 

 a death dance was held with the captive in the center of a group of 

 old women, for it was not dangerous for them to touch the Apache. 

 Outside the old women the other members of the community danced 

 until at length the victim was killed by an old man who stejiped upon 

 her tlu-oat. The body was tied to a pole m an upright position and 

 left as a warning to Apache })rowlers. 



These raids were not infrequent, but they could hope to reap no 

 better reward for their efforts than revenge for past injuries, whereas 

 the Apaches were spurred on to constantly renewed attacks for the 

 sake of the plunder that they might secure. Thus the feral pauper 

 preyed upon the sedentary toiler, but paid dearly in blood for his 

 occasional prize of grahi or live stock. The effect upon the two tribes 



