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Show 52 BY PATH AND TBAIL. Don Hartinez de Hurdiade tried to conquer them, and was defeated in three separate campaigns. However, strange to relate, in 1610, the Yaquis, of their own ac cord, submitted to the Crown of Spain. " " Are they braver and better fighters, general, than the other tribes now at peace with the republic !" " I think they are," replied Don Lorenzo. " Mountaineers are everywhere stubborn fighters. At any rate, for the past fifty years they have given us more trouble than all the Indians in Mexico and Yucatan. Don Diego Mar tinez, in his report, made mention of the indomitable bravery and cunning strategy of the Yaquis of his time. In his ' Eelacion, ' or report of his expedition, he said that no Indian tribe had caused him so much trouble as the Yaqui. After their submission, in 1610, they stayed quiet until 1740, when they again broke out. The rebel lion was quenched in blood, and for eighty- five years they remained peaceful. Then began a period of inter mittent raids. The years 1825, 1826 and 1832 were years of blood, but the Yaquis were, at last, subdued and their war chiefs, Banderas and Guiteieres, executed. In 1867 they again revolted, and were again defeated, but de spite all their defeats, they were not yet conquered. " They led a semi- savage life in the Yaqui valley, but were always giving us trouble, raiding here and there. The majority of them would seemingly be at peace, but human life was always more or less in danger in and near the Yaqui district. " Isolated bands of them lived by plunder, raiding-, foraging and murdering on the rancherias and hacien das. This condition of things was, to say the least, ex tremely irritating. No self respecting government can tolerate within its borders gangs of ruffians defying civ- |