Following up the Colorado, probably the first white men to travel here since the time of Garces, they rode through a camp of Coco-Maricopas, who ran frightened away, and the Pattie party, passing them by as if they were mere chaff, camped four miles farther on, where they were visited by about one hundred, "all painted red in token of amity." Farther up they entered the Mohave country.

When they met some of the inhabitants they "marched directly through their village, the women and children screaming and hiding themselves in their huts." Three miles above, the Patties camped, and a number of the Mohaves soon came to see them.

They did not like the looks of the chief, who made signs that he wanted a horse as payment for the privilege of trapping in his domain.

As the trappers recognised no rights on the part of the natives, they peremptorily refused, whereat the chief drew himself erect with a stern and fierce air and sent an arrow into a tree, at the same time "raising his hand to his mouth and making their peculiar yell." The captain of the Pattie band replied by taking his gun and shooting the arrow in two.

Driven out of the camp the following day, the chief shot a horse as he rode past it and was himself instantly pierced with four rifle balls.
* The Personal Narrative of James O.Pattie, of Kentucky, etc., edited by Timothy Flint.