. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. luding some of thoseseen at tbe ranclio in the jjreceding November) with the families offour, were arrested, taken to Hermosillo, tried, and, acc-ording to oralaccounts, l)anished. Irritated by this action, and connecting with itthe visit of Don Pascual and the strangers desiring their languageand sacred things, tbe clans resumed the warpath, displaying siiecialanimosity toward the residents of Costa Rica. There were a few minorskirmishes; then, at the instance of tbe state officials, a number
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. luding some of thoseseen at tbe ranclio in the jjreceding November) with the families offour, were arrested, taken to Hermosillo, tried, and, acc-ording to oralaccounts, l)anished. Irritated by this action, and connecting with itthe visit of Don Pascual and the strangers desiring their languageand sacred things, tbe clans resumed the warpath, displaying siiecialanimosity toward the residents of Costa Rica. There were a few minorskirmishes; then, at the instance of tbe state officials, a number ofiapago Indians, who arn feared by the Seri beyond all other enemies,were domiciled at tbe rancho, where their mere iiresence proved a suffi-cient protection. Meantime, accoi ding to api)arently trustworthy pressaccounts, two small exploring parties entered Seriland; the first con-sisted of seven prospectors, who kejit well together until about to leavetbe territory, when one of their number fell behind—and bis companionssaw him no more, tiiough they carefully retraced tiieir trail beyond the. MCGEEl THE PORTER-JOHNSON EPISODE 1896 121 point at which he had stopped; the other was a (Terinaii iiiitmalist-prospector with two mozos (servaut-companious), purporting to hailfrom Chihuahua, who started across the delta-plain of Rio Bacuacheand Desierto Bnciuas with saddle animals, and never reappeared. Then came the second expedition of the Bureau of American Eth-nology, to which several Papago domiciled at Costa Rica were attachedas guards. While the party were at the rancho the day before thefirst entrada into Seriland via Barranca Salina, a party of vaquerosfrom Rancho Santa Ana tended a herd of stock to the barranca forwater; one of the animals strayed behind a dune, and the vaqueros,following its trail, came on a small band of Seri already devouring theentrails, and attacked them so vigorously that they escaped only byoutrunning the horses, leaving behind all their unattached
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