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True, some wandering disciples of Loyola, with the cross in one hand and the rules of the Spanish Inquisition in the other, penetrated in their [[proselytizing??]] zeal as far as, and beyond the, Colorado River, but their efforts generally ended in the cremation or crucifixion of the Padres. It has been shrewdly suggested that these reformers incurred the enmity of the Indians by practicing different morals than those they preached, but be that as it may their endeavors at imparting the teaching of their religion were fruitless and the Colorado Indians retained their old beliefs as well as old customs. 
The difference, to and uninterested observer, would appear to have been after all somewhat insignificant. The ancient Mahhaos, as far back as they can be traced, had a tolerably good idea of the golden rule - of doing to others as they would be done by. 
They believed in a Being, all powerful and good, who ruled the Indian destinies from his home above the clouds in the "Okiambova" - Heaven - and that good deeds were the "Hatchil-Kuya arunyé" or trail to Heaven. 
That in their home, invisible like He amid the "Hamosées" or Stars, a notch-stick was kept for each and every Indian and that the good were rewarded and the bad punished after death. 
The cold and wind-swept summit of Ives' "Dead Mountain" above Mount Newberry was the throne of the evil spirit whose duty, in obedience to a higher mandate, was to scourge with the ever-recurring memory of their misdeeds the shades of the bad Indians who wandered, shivering and disconsolate, amid the dark, rocky recesses, at the base of the gloomy mountain. 
Further down the river, where Aubrey now stands - the one saloon with billiards attached - and just beyond the southern bank of