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