After the fact became known, a party went out to take revenge, and it so happened that there was deep snow, and the murderers could easily be trailed.

On the top of what to-day is called the Potrero Viejo the avengers surprised the Navajos fast asleep.

It was bitterly cold, and evil tongues affirmed that the Navajo whose scalp Hoshkanyi Tihua brought home had been frozen to death previous to the arrival of the hero from the Tyuonyi.

However that may be, our governor returned with one scalp; and he was declared to be manslayer, and henceforth counted among the influential braves of his community.
Hoshkanyi Tihua was by no means silly.

He possessed the valuable faculty of keeping his mouth closed and of holding his tongue under circumstances when it would be disadvantageous to him to speak.