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Show BY PATH AND TRAIL. those early days. For some cause unknown to us, a tribal family, numbering perhaps a thousand, quarreled with their kinsmen or became dissatisfied with their lands, separated from their brothers and went in quest of new hunting grounds. They crossed a continent, pass ing in peace through the lands of other tribes and cut ting a passage for themselves through hostile nations. They arrived at last, it may be in a hundred, two hun dred years, in the land now known as New Mexico and Arizona, possessed and tilled by an agricultural and peaceable people, differing in customs, manners, super stitions, and in origin and language. They decided to settle here. The Zuni, Moki, Yumas call them what we may contested the right of the Dinnes to live in their country. The invaders, compared to the established na tions, were few in numbers, but they were trained fight ers. They were lanky men of toughened fibre and mus cle, the sons of warrior sires who had fought their way through tribe, clan and nation, and willed to their sons and grandsons their only estate and property, courage, endurance, agility, strategy in war and cunning in the fight. The DinnSs, let us call them by their modern name the Apaches, woefully outclassed in numbers by the people upon whose lands they had intruded, were wise. Fighting in the open, if they lost but ten men in battle and the Zuni and Moki lost forty, in the end the Zuni and Moki must win out. The Apaches took to the mountains. The Zuni had no stomach for mountain fighting. The Apaches raided their villages, attacked like lions and disappeared like birds. They swept the Salt River valley clean and where at one time there was a sedentary population of 50,000 or 60,000 there was now a desert. Those of the original owners who escaped fled |