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They passed each other with hostile eyes and trigger fingers were unusually limber. The air was pregnant with change. Buck Courtrey was conspicuous by his absence. He was not seen in the town, neither was he at the Stronghold. There were soft whispers afloat that he was with the Pomos up under the Rockface at the north.
It remains to illustrate the second class of expulsions, in which the evil influences are embodied in a visible form or are at least supposed to be loaded upon a material medium, which acts as a vehicle to draw them off from the people, village, or town. The Pomos of California celebrate an expulsion of devils every seven years, at which the devils are represented by disguised men.
The men work in the hop fields and fruit orchards, and the women make baskets. All the California Indians are basket-makers, and their work is so well done and so beautiful that it is much prized. The Pomos of Lake and Mendocino counties make especially fine baskets for every purpose.
The Pomos still make thousands of pieces of this money, and so many strings of it will buy whatever the buck, or Indian man, and his mahala, or squaw, wish to get. General Bidwell, who came to California in 1841 and surveyed the land for many ranches, says of the Indians at that time:
"He was so handsome, Señorita," said the girl, "to be so hardly dealt with." "Paula," said the mistress bitingly, "will you remember who you're talkin' to? Do you want to go back to th' Pomos under th' Rockface?" "Saints forbid!" cried Paula instantly. "Then keep your sighs for José an' mind your manners. Pick up that bundle."
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