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CHAPTER IL

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THE RANGERS ON PICKET. |

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salient point in the picture. There the _Well(el poso}, with its gigantic wheel, its huge leathern belt and buckets, its trough of ceme voted stoue-work, offers and orien- ‘tal aspect. Verily, it is the Persian ! "Tis odd to a northern eye, particularly, to fiud such a atucture in the western |Jand ; but the explauatiou is easy, That idea has travelled from Egypt along the

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With the Moors it crossed the Straits of i! cae: aud the Spaniard has carried jit over the Atlantic. The reader of. the ‘saéred volume will tind many familiar the customs of | Mexico. The genius of the Arab has | Shaped many thought for the brain of the | Aztec,

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Forms, and varied ones, I trow, are moving there.

(Gliling with silent step aad dubious look _his wide calzoneros flapping around his aukles, his arms aud shoulders shrouded jin the muicied scrape, b's broad-brimued hat darkeniuy still more his swarth face— geek the poblano, the denizen of the adube Hie shuns the centre of the | plaza, Keeping eround the walls; but at jintervals his eyes are ivraed towards the |well witha look of mingled fierceness j and fear. He reaches » doorway—it is 'siiéntly’ opened by a hand within—he ‘enfers quickly, and seem* glad to get out of sight. A little after, I can catch a glimpse of hix sombre face dimly out- ‘lined behind the Lars o: the reja. At | distant corovers, descry small groups of bes Ciass—similariy costumed in calzo- /berous, stripped blankets, and glaze hats ; | all, like him, wearing uneasy looks. | They gesticulate little, contrary to their usual habits, and converse only in whis- |persor low mutteriugs. Unusual cir- Most of the women are within doors; a few of the poorer class—of pure Indian race—are sefted in the plaza. They are huck- 'sters, and their wares are spread before jthem ov a thin palm-leaf mat (petate), while another similar one, supported umbrelia-like on a stem, screens them ‘and their merchandise from the sun.

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83 QUEEN STREET Their dyed woolen garments, their bare

‘heads, their coarse black hair, adorned | with twists of scarlet worsted, give them somewhat of a gipsy look. They appear as free of care as the zingali themselves : they laugh, andchatter, aud show their white teeth all day leng, asking each new-comer to purchase their fruits and

vegetables, their Pinole, atole, and agua dulce,

Now and then a youug girl, with red ella poised upon her crown, trips lightly across the plaza in the direction of the well. Perhaps she is a poblana, one of the belles of the village, in short-skirted, bright-coloured petticoat embroidered but sleeveless chemisette, with small satin slippers upon her feet; lead, shoulders, and bosom shrouded. in the blue-gray |reboso; arms and auk!es bare. Several lof these are seen passing to and fro. They appear less uneasy than the men; ; they even smile at intervals, and reply to, jthe badinage uttered in an unknown ton- | gue by the odd-looking strangers around | ithe well. The Mexican women are , courageous as they are amiable. As a! race, their beauty is uudeviable.

But who are these strangers ? They do not belong to the place, that is evident ; and equally clear it is that they are ob- At present, they are masters here. Their

NOVEMBER 28, 1881 THE WAR-TRAIL!

are hunting-shirts of dressed deerskin

the knife and pistol.

Spano American ; and _ still

fasuion, the

‘spencer’ of the Mexican ranchero.

Some shoulders are covered by serapes, |

and some by the more graceful and toga-like manga. Look examine the limbs of this motly band: the covering of these is not less varied than their upper garments, You see wrappers of coarse cloth, of flannel, and of baize ; they are blue, and scarlet, and green. You see leggins of rawhide and of buckskin; boots of horse-leather reaching to the thighs; “ nigger boots” of _ still coarser fabric, with the pataloons tucked under brogans of uustained calf-skin, and moccasins of varied cut, betokening the fashion of more than one Indian tribe. You may see limbs incased in calzone- ros, and others in the heavy stamped

with plaited skirt, and cape, fringed and jauntily adorned with beads and em- broidery—the favorite style of the back- woods hurter; but others there are of true Indian cut, open at the throat, and hanging loose, or fastened around the waist with a belt—the same that secures There are cloth jackets, too, such as are worn by sailors, and others of sky-blue cottonade—the costume of the Creole of Louisiana ; some of red-brown leather—the jaqueta of the avother close-fitting embroidered

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, cowardly assas:ination of Goliad; they remember the red butchery of the Alamo,

Perbaps I alone, of all the band, have no motive for being here; if one, ‘tis slight—scarce so noble as vengeance. Mere chance, the love of excitement and adventure, perhaps some qeak fondness for power and fame, are all the excuses I can urge for taking a hand in this affair. A poor adventurer, without friends, without home, without country —for my native land is no more a nation —my heart is not cheered by a single throb of patriotism. I have no private wrong to redress, no public cause, no country for which to combat,

During intervals of inaction, these thoughts recur to me, and give me pain.

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| The men have picketed their horses in the church enclosure; some are tied to trees, and others te the reja- bars of the windows: like their riders, a motiey group, various ip size, color, and race. The strong high-mettled steed cf Kentucky and Tennessee, the light .** pacer” of Louisinis, the cob. the barb, his descendant the ‘mustang,’ that but a few weeks ago was running wild upon the prairies, may all be seen in the ‘troop. Mules, also, of two distinct races—the large gaunt mule of North America, and the smaller and more

sprightly variety, native of the soil,

leather botas of the Mexican horseman, ' My own black steed, with his pretty

resembling the greaves of warriors of the olden time.

fern-colored muzzle, stands near the fountain in the centre of the plaza. My

The heels of all are armed, theugh ‘eye wanders with a sort of habitual de- their armature is as varied asthe cos-' light over the oval outlines of ais body.

tumes. There are spurs of silver and of

How proudly he curves his swan-like

steel, some plated, and some with the! neck, and with mock anger paws up the plaiting wore off; some strapped, and dust! He knows that my eyes are upon

others screwed into the heel of the boot ; some light, with small rowels and tiny teeth, while others are seen (the heavy spur of Mexico) of several pounds’ weight, with rowels five inches in diameter, and teeth that might be; dashed through the ribs of a horse !— cruel weapons of the Mexican cavallero.

But these spurs in the plaza, these botas and calzoueros, these mangas and serapes, are noi worn by Mezicans. Their present wearers are men of a dif- ferent race. Mest of those tall, stalwart bodies are the product of the maize- plant of Kentucky and Tennessee, or the buckwheat and ‘‘ hog meat” of the fer- tile flats of Ohio, Indiana, and the IIli- nois. They are the squatters and hunters of the backwoods, the farmers of the great western slopes of the Allegh- auies, the boatmen of the Mississippi, the pioneers of Arkansas and Missouri, the trappers of prairie-land, the voyageurs of the lake-couutry, the yousg planters of the lower states, the French Creoles of Louisiana, the adventurous settlers of; Texas, with here and there a gay city spark from the larger towns of the ‘‘ great West.” Yes, and trom other sources are individuals of that mixed band. I recognize the Teutonic type— the fair hair and whitish-yellow mous- tache of the German, the florrid English- man, the staid Scot, and his contrast the noisy Hibernian ; both equally brave. I behold the adroit aud nimble French- man, full of laugh and chatter, the stanch soldicrly Swiss, and the moustached exile of Poland, dark, sombre, and silent. Whai a study for an ethnologist is that baud of odd-looking men! Who are they ?

You have thrice asked the question. I answer it: They are a corps of ‘Rangers’ —a guerilla of the American army.

Aud who am I? their chief.

Yes, I am the leader of that queer crew ; and, despite their rough motley aspect, I dare affirm, that not in Europe, not in America elsewhere, not upon the great globe's surface, can be found a baud, of like numbers, to equal them in strength, daring, and warlike intelli-

Their captain—

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panne uly things about them denoting wnifor- peror.

| numbers, their proud confident swagger,’ gence. Many of them have spent half a ‘and the bold loud tone of their couver-j{life in the sharpening practice of border jsation, attest that they are masters of the | warfare—Indian or Mexican—and from |ground. Who are they ? Odd-looking, I these the others have learnt. Some have |have styled them ; and the phrase is to ba been gentlemen upon whom fortune has ‘taken in its full significance. A more frowned; a few have been desperadoes ? odd-looking set of fellows never nuste-/| within the pale of civilized life; and a ‘red in a Mexicau p!aze, vor elsewhere. | smaller few, perhaps, ontlaws beyond it | ‘There are fourscore of them; but that —bad material wherewith to colonize ; ‘each carries a yager rife in his hand, a, not so bad if you go but to conquer. -katfe in his beli, amd a Colt’s pistol on} Rude as is the coup d’al of the corps, this theh, you could vot discover the I am proud to say that a high sentiment ‘slightest point ef resemblance between of honor pervades it, higher than will be

him. We have been scarcely an hour in the rancheria ; we are perfect strangers to it : we are the first American troop ite people have yet seen, although the war has been going on for some months further down the river, We have been sent here upon picket-duty, with orders to scour the surrounding country as far as it is sate. The object in sending us hither is not so much to guard against a surprise from our Mexican foe, who is not upon this side, but to guard them, the Mexicans, from another enemy—an enemy of beth of us—the Comanche! These Indian Ishmaelites, report says, are upon the ‘‘war-trail,” aud have quite an army in the field, It is said they are foraging further up the river, where they have it all to themselves, and have just pillaged a settlement in that direction— butchered the men, as is their wont, and carried off the women, children, and chattels. We came hither to conquer the Mexicans, but we must protect while conquering them! Cosas de M-xivo !

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