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daring as well as courage ; I shall have to speak of him 
again, on my journey to the Sierra Madre. He had often 
been wounded, and was suffering, when I first saw him, 
from the effects of an arrow wound near the spine. In 
order to recover for his master some valuable horses, 
which had been stolen by the Apaches, he, with several 
others, followed the thieves close to their haunts in the 
mountains. As the night approached, they could see the 
robbers in the distance. Dominguez, who, when a boy, had 
been for a long time a prisoner among the Apaches, took 
off his clothes, and assumed the appearance of a Comanche 
warrior. By a more direct path he got before the Apaches, 
and, as they approached with the horses, he sprang suddenly 
from behind a rock raising the Comanche war-hoop, shot 
down two of the Apaches, and so terrified the whole band, 
that, in the confusion, he not only succeeded in bringing 
away the stolen horses but some others also. 
For this heroic fulfilment of duty the men of this class 
often meet with base ingratitude. On another similar occa- 
sion Dominguez lost his own horse, it being shot from 
under him ; but it never occurred to his master, a very rich 
man, to replace it. The miserable and cowardly selfishness 
of the higher classes, to whom in Mexico almost all the 
landed property belongs, is the cause of the wretched state 
into which the localities exposed to the Indians have fallen. 
There are certainly some few praiseworthy examples of 
courage and energy among the higher classes, but they are 
counterbalanced by deplorable examples of the reverse. 
Don Pedro Zuloaga, belonging to one of the first families 
in Chihuahua, who, with others, had pursued a body of In- 
dians who had ventured into the immediate neighbourhood 
of the town, fell, shamefully deserted by his companions, 
