The other chief, they said, had no right to sell their territory.

The lieutenant being fully satisfied that he had captured the real murderers, promptly pronounced judgment and had them placed in line and shot.

Lieutenant Moore pursued the fugitives to Mono but was not successful in finding any of them.

After being hospitably entertained and protected by the Mono and Paute tribes, they stole a number of stolen horses from their entertainers and made their way by a long, obscure route by the head of the north fork of the San Joaquin, reached their Yosemite home once more, but early one morning, after a feast of horse-flesh, a band of Monos surprised them in their huts, killing Tenaya and nearly all his tribe.

Only a small remnant escaped down the river canyon.