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Show BY PATH AND TRAIL. 53 ilization, law and order. The federal government de cided to act." " Were you then the general in command, Don Lo renzo ? ' ' " No, I was governor of Sonora; it was later, in 1892, that I was given command of this zone. When war again broke out between the tribe and the federal troops, the Yaquis were very daring, and numerically strong; some hot engagements took place, and the Yaquis fled to the Bacatete mountains. From these hills they swooped down upon the mines, held up the trails and mail routes, " and terrorized the surrounding country. Our troops pursued them into the mountains, storming their im pregnable strongholds. It took ten years of tedious and bloody fighting to reduce them and bring them to terms. We struck a peace, and to that treaty of peace the Mexi can government was true, and stood by its terms and pledges. We gave the Yaquis twenty times more land than they ever dreamed of cultivating. We gave them cattle, tools and money. We fed them and furnished them seed. We have been humane to a degree unde served by the Yaquis." The general rose from his seat, and, for a few mo ments, paced the room as if in deep thought. Whether he suspected my sympathies were with the Indians or that his government was wedged in between the base in gratitude of the Yaquis and the censure of the outside world, I do not know, but he interrupted his walk, faced me with a noticeable shade of irritation on his fine face, and continued : 1 1 1 did even more ; as religion has a soothing and paci fying effect upon the soul and the passions, I obtained priests and Sisters of Charity for them; I established |