they destroyed Kino's canoe: This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal. (744) The trackers annihilated the most important material possession that any citizen of the community owned, "...for a man with a boat can guarantee a woman that she will eat something. It was the bulwark against starvation" (717). The evil invaded Kino's life and everyone who knew of it ...
