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Hayoue nodded; the find pleased him. "That is from our women," said he. "The women from the Puyatye," Zashue said doubtingly, "wear skirts like our koitza." "It is so, but the women from Hashyuko do not go so far from their homes now. Nothing is ripe, neither cactus, figs, nor yucca fruit. What should they come out here for? When do our women ever go so far from the Zaashtesh?"
When the brothers had clambered down the rugged slope covered with scattered lava-blocks to the sandy nook where now stands the hamlet of the "Ciéné-quilla," clouds had again lifted over Hashyuko, and on the slope of the high Sierra the bluish cloudlet swam clear and distinct. Much water ran in the bed of the river at the mouth of the Bocas, and there was no hope of finding any tracks there.
He reflected, and Zashue had overlooked this important point, that, in case the Tehuas notified the Tanos of recent occurrences, they would not fail to boast of their signal triumph, and to represent the defeat of the Queres as akin to complete destruction. Therefore in what light could he and his brother appear to the people of Hashyuko than as fugitives from a tribe well nigh exterminated?
"It is true that the Moshome Dinne cannot have killed all our people. Do you not think, satyumishe, that he meant to tell me thereby that forty of our people escaped and fled to Hanyi?" "I do; and that is the reason why I believe we shall find them in Hashyuko," the eastern corner, the Queres name for the place where Santa Fé stands, replied the other, very positively.
"But I believe that this rag is from our people, and you were right in coming hither. Look!" pointing to the entrance of the Bocas, "they came through there and from the west. Even if we find no trace of them I still believe that they went to Hashyuko and that we shall find them there. Let us go ere it is too late!"
But above all, Zashue felt strong misgivings in regard to the reception which he and his brother, both armed as they were, might find at Hashyuko. Under different circumstances he would have gone to the Tanos without any fear, and would have entered the village as a guest.
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