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their backs with bits of scarlet cloth, but more of 
them with the richly-figured sashes or belts of their 
own manufacture. Some again wore their hair in 
braids tastefully wound around their heads, intermin- 
gled with pieces of scarlet cloth ; while a few, less par- 
ticular as to their appearance, wore it clubbed up 
behind in a huge mass. .The manes and tails of their 
horses were also set off with bits of white and red 
cloth. Their arms were solely the bow and arrow: 
most of them had a skin quiver hung across their 
backs ; though a few carried their arrows in their gir- 
dles. There was quite an exciting time as the party 
were about to start; and several of the Commission 
desired to take their rifles and accompany them, a 
request which was of course refused. 
Wishing to get back to our old camp in the cool of 
the morning, we did not wait for breakfast, but were 
off by five o'clock, and, after another hard tug through 
the sand, reached the camping ground, where we had 
every thing we could ask for, except shade, and water 
to bathe in. The latter was the greatest deprivation. 
The tents were again pitched, and the camp arranged 
as it was on the day of our arrival. : 
The Indians again flocked around us, and in greater 
numbers than before. The Pimos having heard of our 
arrival, many of them came also, bringing such vege- 
tables as they had, together with pinole, made both 
from wheat and corn. Some of the pinole was sweet- 
ened with the flour of mezquit beans, which they also 
brought separate in small earthen vases, or ollas, as the 
Mexicans callthem. The mezquit flour, which is ground 
very fine, has a sickish sweetness; so that, although I 
