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Show CHAPTER VII. THE PRIEST AND THE YAQUIS. The war between the Mexican government and the Yaquis is not conducted according to methods or prac tices which govern civilized nations. It partakes more of the nature of a Corsican vendetta or a Kentucky feud. It is a war of " shoot on sight " by the Mexicans, and of treachery, cunning, ambushment and midnight slaughter by the Yaquis. It is a war of extermination. In 1861 Governor Pesquira, of Sonora, in a proclama tion offering $ 100 for every Yaqui scalp brought in, calls them " human wolves," " incarnate demons, " who de serve to be " skinned alive. " 1 1 There is only one way, ' ' writes Signor Camillo Diaz, " to wage war against the Yaquis. We must enter upon a steady, persistent campaign, following them to their haunts, hunting them to the fastness of their mount ains. They must be surrounded, starved, surprised or inveigled by white flags, or by any methods human or dia bolic, and then then put them to death. A man might as well have sympathy for a rattlesnake or a tiger. ' ' And now let me end this rather long dissertation on this singular tribe by a citation from Velasco, the his torian of Sonora. I ought, however, to add that the Yaquihas yet to beheard in his defense. " Without doubt, ' ' writes Velasco, " it must be admitted that under no good treatment does the Yaqui abandon his barbarism, his perfidy, his atrocity. Notwithstanding his many treaties of peace with Mexico and the memory of what he suf fered in past campaigns, yet on the first opportunity and |