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Show BY PATH AND TRAIL. 19 in the district, accompanied by his wife and daughters, Senoritas Carmen, Elvira, Eloisa and Panchetta six- Senoritas Carmen, Elvira, Eloisa and Panchetta sixteen, eighteen, twenty and twenty- three years left Guaymas early one morning for La Dura. At Ortiz they halted for refreshments, where they were joined by Senor Theobold Hoff, his wife and son, a young man twenty- three years old. There was apparently no reason for alarm, for the Mexican troops and the Yaqui warriors were fighting it out eighty miles to the east. When the Indians ambushed them, the men of the party charged desperately up the slope to draw the Yaquis' fire, shouting to the ladies to drive on and save them selves. The women refused to abandon the men, and when a company of Mexican Eurales ( mounted police) ar rived on the scene, Pedro Meza, his family and guests were numbered with the dead. As I propose in another place to give a brief his tory of this formidable tribe, I confine myself here to the statement that the Yaquis are now and have been for the past three hundred years, the boldest and fiercest warriors within the limits of Mexico and Central Amer ica. I passed the night under the friendly roof of Don Alonzo, and early the next morning with my Mayo guide and companion continued iny journey to the Gran Bar ranca. Far away to the southeast towered the volcanic mount, the Sierra de los Ojitos, whose shaggy flanks and heaving ridges are covered with giant pines, and on whose imperial crest the clouds love to rest before they open and'distribute impartially their waters between the Atlantic and the Pacific, through the Gulfs of Mexico and California. |
