But the Apaches, by their incessant attacks, made the life of the villagers so miserable that the place became depopulated.

Once it was even entirely abandoned.

Many stories of the constant fights with these savages are related by the survivors of those struggles.

Never was it safe in those days to venture outside of the town limits.

Yet the conflicts did not always end in one way, and the Mexicans sometimes got the better of the raiders, although it may be doubted whether the methods by which these results were brought about would come under the rules of modern warfare.
One bright moonlight night an old man, who had himself taken part in many an Apache fight, led me to a deep gorge where seven Apaches once met their doom.