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Show HOW TO SUBDUE THE APACHE. 457 provinces. This precaution may not be held useless, since from all that I have seen and heard I have formed an idea that the Apache, though it is not a very numerous nation, is to be dreaded for the great refuge that it possesses, as I have said in Point 2, in the country of its friends and of its own, beyond the Rio Colorado toward the north. All those whom I designate by the name of Yabipais are in reality Apaches. Also have they a great refuge and dispatch for the horse- herds they steal, in Moqui; for, as I have said, those of the Pueblo de Oraibe have friendship with the Yabipais Nabajay," who are those who infest these lands. Considering, therefore, all these arguments and circumstances, I have held for an effectual means of subduing the Apache that which now I set forth in the following Point: POINT v. How to subdue the Apache. 1* From all that has been said it is inferred, and it can be clearly seen on the map, that Moqui is not so far " This is another instance of the comprehensiveness with which the author uses the term Yabipais, it being here extended to include the Navajos. 14 Apache, from the Cuchan ( Yuma) apa, man; ahwo, war, |