Next day the prisoners were taken to the ravine and speared, charges of powder being deemed too good for them.

Only el capitan, pointing to his head, requested, as a special favour, to be shot, which was done.

Their bodies were buried in the ravine where they fell, but too long a time had already elapsed since the event to enable me to secure for my collections the specimens for which I had been on the lookout.

Yet I was told by the inhabitants that the ground about the town was so full of Apache remains that I should have no difficulty in gaining my object in places close by.

A number of Apaches, men and women, I was informed, had once been dumped into a well.