| Show TIIl YAQri fudian since used T1 Indians of Sonora long tactics of known war that were un OWn to Uprising ClVllizedtr ° ops In a former the says the San Francisco Call vl10 Was were attacked by Gen Pesquerias u blani much amused to 6ee the savages ets d iiers as a shield bUllets against the sol lath end8 Holding up a blanket at so that e FOUnd the edge just touched the ly Indian riflemen marched toward h I him y behind this 1Uusy apparent eral afi protection The Mexican Gen 8QO Soon n alarmed however to find that his bullets did not stop the strange advance and the moving fort of blankets soon came so close to him and poured in such a deadly fire that he was fain to flv the field in confusion and with great loss The Yaquis had become acquainted acquaint-ed with the fact that while a bullet will pass through twenty blankets strained over a frame or laid against a firm sur face it will not penetrate a single one if moistened and hung up so as to swing clear of the ground The bullets which Gen Pesquerias imagined were passing through the Indian blankets and thinning thin-ning the ranks of the savages were all falling harmlessly on the outside of the woolen bulwarks |
