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to enable him to make a suitable appearance, his friends lend him a few 
strings, and they are returned to them after the proclamation. 
For murder there is no punishment but individual revenge. That 
must be had within twelve moons after the murder, for there is a kind of 
statute of limitations which steps in then and forbids any further seeking of 
blood. They consider that the keenest and most bitter revenge which a 
man can take is not to slay the murderer himself, but his dearest friend. 
This, however, is probably only the sentiment of casual Indians, though it 
would comport well with the subtle Asiatic character of the race. 
For kidnaping, as above mentioned, the punishment was death. It 
is related that a chief, named Ba-kal’-lim-pun, living near Bear River, in 
1851, kidnaped a number of women from his own tribe, and sold them to 
the Spaniards for infamous uses. On detecting him in his villainies the 
Indians put him to death, and then hacked him into a thousand little pieces. 
They would throw an eye to one of his fellow-villagers, a finger-joint to 
another, a toe-joint to another, etc. It should, however, be borne in mind 
that the California Indians did not torture persons while alive. 
For adultery with a foreigner the penalty was also death ; and there 
are few other tribes in the State of whom this can be affirmed. In 1850, a 
squaw was sacrificed by her people on Dry Creek, near Georgetown, for 
this offense, committed with an American, though there was really no erim- 
inality on her part. The profanation of the loathed foreigner was upon 
her, and all her tears and cries were of no avail. 
They did not mark their boundaries by artificial signs, though they 
had them defined with the greatest strictness by springs (pokkan), hills 
(yamun), valleys (hinumchuka), ete. They did not ordinarily destroy 
member of another tribe for trespassing on their territory, but if he caught 
fish or game, or gathered acorns on it, they demanded reparation in kind 
They were faanaatie at war with the Pai-w-ti, whom they called Moan’- 
au-zi, and whom they greatly dreaded. The Paiuti were always the ag- 
gressors, and came over armed with savage wooden knives, with which 
they slaughtered the feeble Californians (they seldom cared to take prison- 
ers), and scalped the dead by cutting off a small round patch of hair on top 
of the head. 
