Chronicles of Camp Wright, Part III; Chapters I-IV [pp. 259-271]

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Salvador rode up to her and seized her raw-hide fell once and again not on the horse
rein. " Ah, traitress, ungrateful, disobe- only hut also on his rider. The girl uttered
dient!" hissed his angry voice. " I`11 set- no sound and made no resistance, only she
tle with you for this piece of work, be sure." bent forward over the animal's neck before
And leaving Felipe he started away from the the shower of blows. At this pitiful sight
river dragging the horse and its rider after her lover gave a great cry of despair and
him across the sand dunes. started forward to the rescue, wounded and
The horse followed not unwillingly but unarmed as he was. But bleeding, exhausttoo slowly for Salvador's impatience. He ed, and on foot, it was hopeless for him to
dropped the rein, pulled his horse behind, attempt to overtake the horses. He made
and striking the other violently with his whip one despairing rush with all his failing
forced him into a gallop. The position was strength, then he fell headlong and lay
a tempting one to his passion and the cruel senseless on the sand.
A'. B. Towns~uid.
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CHRONICLES OF CAMP WRIGHT'. — III.
THE ToM-KIES, SHANEL-POMOS, E-DA-MAS, AND WYLAcKIEs.
inoffen~ive - so much so in fact that when
I. the Vukas were being exterminated by the
whites in and about Round Valley, the Tom THE home of the Tom-kies, or Little kies remained unmolested until sometime in
Lakes, as they are called by the whites, was 1872, when they were driven away from
along the banks of the Tom-ki Creek, a tol- their homes in their little valleys by the
erably large stream, exceedingly dangerous whites, and taken to the reservation. What
when swollen in the rainy season, which ever reasons may have prompted the whites
runs through that part of Mendocino County in their action, the removal, with time,
lying between the Russian and Eel Rivers proved most beneficial to the Indians, for
and empties in the South Fork of the last they said afterwards that they were then
named. This creek courses through several starving, as the settlers wanted all the wild
little valleys, and in these, and others lying clover for their cattle and all the acorns for
near about, like Scott's Valley, the Tom- their hogs, and that now they had plenty to
kies lived contented and happy in their sim- eat and to wear, more than they ever had
ple ways, until that part of California was before, and would be perfectly bappy were
settled by the whites. it not for being away from their home - to
These Indians are more intelligent, better which, like all the other Indians, they
proportioned, and hardier than their neigh- cling with great tenacity, not only from afbors, the Vukas, and they were even more fection but also as a matter of religious be lief. Some months aftewrard six of these
`In the series of studies of the cosmogony and other
legends, the charaete~-, and history of the different In- Tom-kies, three men, two women, and a
dian tribes about Round Valley, properly belonging to a littl suffering with uncontrollable
the "Cl'ronicles of Camp Wught," the papers upo~~ tl?e boy,
Con-Cows a~sd Yukas have been anticipated in srtiele
he 0vENL~ND MONTHLY for June, July, and August 18~~4.0 nostal~ia, ventured back to their old home,