Chapter III

Lorenzo Oatman--Conscious of most of the Scenes of the Massacre--The
next Day he finds himself at the Foot of a rocky Declivity,
over which he had fallen--Makes an Effort to walk--Starts for
Pimole--His Feelings and Sufferings--Is attacked by Wolves--Then
by two Indians, who are about to shoot him down--Their subsequent
Kindness--They go on to the Place of Massacre--He meets the
Wilders and Kellys--They take him back to Pimole--In about one
Month gets well, and starts for Fort Yuma--Visits the Place of
Massacre--His Feelings--Burial of the Dead--Reflections--The
two Girls--Their Thoughts of Home and Friends--Conduct of their
Captors--Disposition of the Stock--Cruelty to the Girls to hurry
them on--Girls resolve not to proceed--Meet eleven Indians,
who seek to kill Olive--Reasons for--Apaches defend her--Their
Habits of Fear for their own Safety--Their Reception at the
Apache Village--One Year--The Mohaves--Their second coming among
the Apaches--Conversation of Olive and Mary--Purchased by the
Mohaves--Avowed Reasons--Their Price--Danger during the Debate 90

CHAPTER IV.

The Journey of three hundred and fifty Miles to the Mohave
Valley--The Means of Subsistence during the Time--The Conduct of
the Mohaves compared with the Apaches--Arrive at the Valley--The
Village--The Chief’s Residence--Their Joy at the Return of Topeka,
their Daughter--The Greeting of the new Captives--One Year of Labor
and Suffering--The Overflowing of the Colorado--Their Dependence
upon it--Their Habits--Cultivation of the Soil--Scarcity of
Provisions--Starvation--Mary Ann--Her Decline--Olive’s Care, Grief,
and Efforts to save her Life--Dies of Famine--Many of the Indian
Children die--Burial of Mary Ann--The Sympathy and Sorrow of the
Chief’s Wife--The great Feast--The killing of the two Captives as a
Sacrifice 160

CHAPTER V.

The Mohaves--Their Sports--An Expedition of Hostility against
the Cochopas--Its Design--Tradition concerning it--The
Preparation--Their Custom of sacrificing a Prisoner on the Death
in War of one of their own Number--The Anxiety of Olive--They
depart--Their Return--The Fruit of the Expedition--The Five Cochopa
Captives--Nowereha--Her Attempt to escape--Her Recapture and
horrid Death--The Physicians--Evil Spirits--The Mohave Mode of
Doctoring--The Yumas--“Francisco,” the Yuma Indian--Hopes of Escape
216

CHAPTER VI.

Lorenzo Oatman--His Stay at Fort Yuma--Goes with Dr. Hewit to San
Francisco--His constant Misery on Account of his Sisters--Dark
Thoughts--Cold Sympathy--Goes to the Mines--Resolves to go to Los
Angeles to learn, if possible, of his Sisters--His earnest but
fruitless Endeavors--The Lesson--Report brought by Mr. Roulit of
two Captives among the Mohaves--The false Report of Mr. Black--Mr.
Grinell--Petitions the Governor--Petitions Congress--The Report of
the Rescue of Olive--Mr. Low 238