Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian war of 1851, which led to that event . a passion. Here, sheltered in a measure from thestorms of winter, and the burning heat of summer, they metas in an earthly paradise, to exchange the products of eitherside of the Sierras, to engage in a grand hunt and festivaloffer up religious sacrifices, and awaken the echoes of thevalley with their vociferous orations. Should their skillfail them in the chase, and the mountain or brook refusetheir luscious offerings, they had a never-failing resource inthe skill with which they could dispossess the native Cali-
Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian war of 1851, which led to that event . a passion. Here, sheltered in a measure from thestorms of winter, and the burning heat of summer, they metas in an earthly paradise, to exchange the products of eitherside of the Sierras, to engage in a grand hunt and festivaloffer up religious sacrifices, and awaken the echoes of thevalley with their vociferous orations. Should their skillfail them in the chase, and the mountain or brook refusetheir luscious offerings, they had a never-failing resource inthe skill with which they could dispossess the native Cali-fornian, or the newly arrived immigrant of his much prizedherds, and translate them to their mountain home. Norwas there need of herd-men to guard their fleecy flocks or roving herds, for theprancing horse or gen-tle kine, having oncebeen slid over the slip-pery gateway, avoidedthe obstruction everafter; and remainedcontented in theirfields of blue grassand elovei. But, when the in-fluence of the gold •en era finally reachedthis once blissfully ig- THE INDIAN liELLBl. * °. 220 DISCOVERY OF THE YOSEMITE, norant people, and wants were created that their belles andbeaux had never known before, their imaginations excitedby the superfluities of civilization, their natural cunningcame at once to their aid, and lo! the honest mineror timid Chinaman contributed from their scanty storesand wardrobes, or the poorly sheltered goods of the moun-tain trader opened their canvas walls to the keen argumentsof their flinty knives, and wants real or fancied were at oncesupplied. AVhat then was there lacking, to make the Tosemites ahappy people, removed as they were from the bad influencesof whiskey and the white mans injustice? Only this: thewhites would not let them alone. So Ten-ie-_ya had said,as if aggrieved. Like all his race, and perhaps like all ig-norant, passionate and willful persons, he appeared uncon-scious of his own wrong-doing, and of the inevitable fatethat he was bringing upo
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