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dignified manner. To eyes unaccustomed, however, to 

 Indian physiognomy, Pah-SquaTs portrait will seem to have 

 something incongruous about it, looking womanish and yet 

 showing a man's determination and somewhat of savage 

 ferocity. This is partly caused by the tribal style the hair 

 is dressed in, but principally from lack of evidence of a beard. 

 American Indians have naturally hardly any hair upon 

 lips, cheek, or chin. Some tribes, I believe have none, and 

 all the uncivilized aborigines of that continent pluck out by 

 the roots the hairs that do grow upon their faces below their 

 eyes. 



Pi-Nole' shall receive our next attention. The name 

 signifies two tracks, and was probably given to the indi- 

 vidual who bore it from the fact that his feet were unusually 

 large for an Indian's. He was a shortish, thick-set man of 

 about forty years of age, and unusually dark-skinned for a 

 man of his tribe ; the Apache-Yumayas being, comparatively 

 speaking, a light- complexioned race, little if any darker than 

 gipsies. His face beamed with an amount of drollery and 

 bonhomie which is most uncommon for an American indi- 

 gene ; and, indeed, I suspect that Indian was something of a 

 wag in his way, for he was constantly saying with a solemn 

 air things that appeared to greatly amuse those to whom he 

 addressed himself. Unfortunately I understood hardly any 

 words that he used, but Pi-Nole' tried his best to make him- 

 self companionable, pointing out to me as he trotted along 

 by the side of my horse different objects, and attempting to 

 tell me something about them. 



Mocha-Smar, or Three-sleeps, was a man of very dif- 

 ferent cast, nearly as tall as Pah-Squal, but without his 



