The younger sighs and answers,—
"They have never done wrong to us."
"Still they speak the tongue of the people of Karo."
"It is true, but they live nearer to us."
"But they are Tehuas too, like the people of the north, and—"
Hayoue interrupts him, saying,—
"Our folk have gone to them as often as they wished buffalo-hides, and the Puyatye have received them well, giving them what was right. Why should they now be hard toward us?"
"Still if the Tehuas have gone to see them, saying, 'The Queres from the Tyuonyi came to strike us like Moshome over night; look and see that they do not hurt you also,' and now we come with shield, bow, and arrow, what can the Puyatye think other than that we are Moshome Queres?"
Hayoue feels the weight of this observation; he casts his eye to the ground and remains silent. Zashue continues,—
"It is true that the Moshome Dinne cannot have killed all our people. This we found out on the Rātye," pointing to the Sierra de San Miguel; "ere I killed the old man to take ahtzeta from him, he lifted all of his fingers four times and pointed over here. Do you not think, satyumishe, that he meant to tell me thereby that forty of our people escaped and fled to Hanyi?"