Identifier: discoveryofyosem00bunn (find matches)
Title: Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian war of 1851, which led to that event
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Bunnell, Lafayette Houghton, 1824-1903
Subjects: Pacific Coast Indians, Wars with, 1847-1865 Indians of North America Ethnic groups Law
Publisher: New York, Chicago, F.H. Revell company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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SCOVERT OF THE TOSEMITE, they were naturally more virtuous, than has been generallysupposed. Their government being largely patriarchal, the womenare subjects of the will of the patriarch in all domestic re-lations. The result is, that they have become passivelysubmissive creatures of mens will. Believing this to bethe natural sphere of their existence, they hold in contemptone who performs menial labor, which they have beentaught belongs to their sex alone. The habits of these mountain tribes being simple; theiranimal passions not being stimulated by the condimentsand artificial habits of civilized life; they, in their nativecondition, closely resembled the higher order of animals inpairing for offspring. The spring time is tlieir season oflove. When the young clover blooms and the wild anisethrows its fragrance upon mountain and dell, then, in theseclusion of the forest are formed those unions which amongthe civilized races are sanctioned by the church and by thelaws of the country.
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291a DISCOVERY OF THE YOSEMITE, CHAPTER XYIII. Murder of Starkey—Death of Ten-ie-ya and Extinction of his Band—Afew Surviving Murderers—An Attempt at Reformation—A Failureand loss of a Mule---Murder8 of Robert D. Sevil and Robert Smith—Alarm of the People—A False Alarm. During the winter of 1852-3, Jesse Starkey and Mr.Johnson, comrades of the Mariposa battalion and experthunters, were engaged in supplying miners along the Mari-posa Creek with venison and bear meat. They were en-camped on the head waters of the Chow-chilla and fear-ing no danger, slept soundly in their encampment. Theyhad met Indians from time to time, who seemed friendlyenough, and even the few escaped Yosemites who recog-nized Starkey, showed no sign of dislike; and hence noproper precautions were taken against their treachery. A few days only had passed in the occupation of hunting,when a night attack was made upon the hunters. Starkeywas instantly killed, but Johnson, though wounded, es-caped to Maripo

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