StNicholas [serial] . became a young man helearned to shoot with along, tough bow, and hadplenty of arrows in his father was killed onthe Gila in a battle with theTontos, and he was madewar chief and head chiefof the Yumas in his that time the Yumasheld all the land from Colo-rado to the great sea westand on this side north tothe great bend of the Colo-rado River. East, it reachedas far as the Tonto country. Then the white peoplecame and fought with theMexicans under SantaAnna, the man with oneleg, and took Californiaand the Yuma country onboth sides of the ColoradoRiver. At
StNicholas [serial] . became a young man helearned to shoot with along, tough bow, and hadplenty of arrows in his father was killed onthe Gila in a battle with theTontos, and he was madewar chief and head chiefof the Yumas in his that time the Yumasheld all the land from Colo-rado to the great sea westand on this side north tothe great bend of the Colo-rado River. East, it reachedas far as the Tonto country. Then the white peoplecame and fought with theMexicans under SantaAnna, the man with oneleg, and took Californiaand the Yuma country onboth sides of the ColoradoRiver. At this time theYumas and the Mohaveswere one nation. All planted fields together and had enough food, but somesoldiers and white teachers quarreled with theYuma Indians. Suddenly the Indians were sur-prised by white soldiers, who came upon themunder a very fierce and terrible captain.* Pascaul got his warriors together and foughtvery hard. They drove the white men back manytimes, but the great captain had great guns and. PASCAUL VISITS SAN FRANCISCO. powder and balls, and the Indians had only spearsand bows and arrows. Twenty-five years later I met this great captainof whom Pascaul spoke. He fought the Yumanation and defeated them more than once in 1848. * Captain Heintzelman, later general in the Civil War. igo8.] FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS 251 He told me that the right way to deal with thesavage Indians was to fight them, fight them, fightthem, till they gave up. Then they would alwaysbe good, peaceable Indians. He said that theYuma Indians were often gigantic in size andcould beat the soldiers skirmishing. They ranbehind rocks, logs, or knolls, and sometimes evencame out boldly to face the regulars, but they hadonly bows and arrows, knives and spears, whilewe had cannon and muskets. This may be oneway to get the country, but I can not think it theright or the best way. At any rate, Pascaulswarriors were killed and many more woundedand carried away prisoners by the great captain. The
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