198 CAVE AND CUFF DWELLERS. 
ance of the others, although demanded 
in the name of the Mexican law, with 
corresponding punishment. The civ¬ 
ilized natives then conceived the idea of 
a small body of picked men going in a 
roundabout way to compel his attend¬ 
ance, which was done, although he still 
refused to exercise his authority to com¬ 
pel his own band to give up the corpse 
of the dead Tarahumari. The forcing 
of the wild chief into the dispute was 
about to bring on a collision between the 
two factions, when one of the civilized 
natives wrenched his scepter from his 
hand, waved it aloft, and demanded of 
the wild ones that they cease all hostile 
demonstrations and bring in the body of 
the murdered man, all of which they did 
in the name of “ God’s Justice.” 
Nearly all the civilized Tarahumaris 
