"What does it matter," they said, "if one or two of us are killed ?" Cowards as the Tarahumares are when few in number, they do not know fear when many of them are together.

They are harmless when not interfered with, but neither forget nor forgive an injury.

On several occasions they have killed white men who abused their hospitality, and they even threatened once, when exasperated by abuses, to exterminate all the whites in some sections of their domain.
The robbers were taken by an escort of Indians to the little town of Carichic, and from there sent to Cusihuiriachic ("where upright pole is") to be tried.

This place is about a hundred miles from Nararachic, and as the Indians during the next weeks were called to be present at the trial as witnesses, it annoyed them not a little.

They were sorry they had not killed the evil-doers; and it would even have been better, they said, to have let them go on stealing.
In the fight the gobernador had got a bullet through his lung.