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had destroyed all his crop, and he wanted to join the insur- 

 rection; he said that was the only way he could get any- 

 thing to eat, since his crop had been destroyed. I induced 

 him, by offering him a small sum of money and all the Pec- 

 caries he could use, to show us where to find them. Next 

 morning he was at our camp, mounted on a burro, and we 

 were soon off. Going up the river three miles, then turn- 

 ing toward the mountains and following up a- canon, we 

 came to his casa and a small field which he had irrigated 

 from a spring farther up the canon. He said he was always 

 bothered with the Peccaries, but had managed to raise a 

 crop until this time, when they became so bold as to come 

 to the field in broad daylight. 



We followed up this canon, finding lots of trails, showing 

 that there were large bodies of the Peccaries together. We 

 traveled directly up the main canon about four miles, then 

 followed a well-beaten trail which turned up a small side 

 canon. After following this trail two miles, it seemed as if 

 they had scattered, and everything indicated that we had 

 reached their feeding-grounds. The ground was rooted up 

 in every direction. We had been steadily climbing since we 

 left the river, and must now have been three thousand feet 

 above its bed. The country was more level, and was covered 

 with underbrush, cactus, and a few trees. We were on the 

 second bench of the table-lands, which is usually the home 

 of the Peccary. 



As we rode out from the canon on this almost level land, 

 we could see for miles away, but were unable to see any 

 of our game, the brush being about five feet high on an 

 average. The Yaqui had said but little since we started up 

 the last canon, and as we got on top of this bench he 

 stopped and refused to go any farther, saying the Peccaries 

 were there — meaning in the brush — and that he would go 

 back in the canon, get in a tree, and wait for us to come 

 back. I knew what the matter was; he was getting scared. 

 He then told us there had been two Yaquis eaten by the 

 Peccaries, near there, a year ago, and that the way to get 

 them was to wait until they came down for water, and then 



