490 APACHES. Book III. 
have observed in the Texan Apaches and Lipans : the 
profile of their faces was more Grecian ; the brow, nose, 
eyes, and mouth were well formed, and the Indian was 
seen only in the high cheek-bones, and the sinister expres- 
sion of the features. They wore a hat of leather and 
scarlet cloth, shaped like a helmet, ornamented with 
feathers and, round the crown, with a piece of yellow cloth 
cut in points like a coronet. The plumes, of an antique 
shape, consisted of the tail-feathers of the wild turkey, and 
at the side hung the feathered skins of various little birds 
of bright plumage. A leather strap fastened this head- 
dress under the chin, and the whole presented an extremely 
warlike appearance both in man and boy. From some 
drawings I have seen, this costume is found among the 
Navajos, in New Mexico. 
These Apaches had with them some stolen Mexican 
boys, one of whom they offered us for sale. We should 
have gladly purchased the boy's freedom, but could not 
agree about the bargain, as the Apaches demanded powder 
and shot, which they might afterwards have used against 
ourselves. To decline this demand in the least offensive 
way, I told the chieftain that we had no great store of 
those articles. But Mr. K. interrupted me, exclaim- 
ing in a violent tone, " We have plenty of powder and 
shot, not for, but against the Apaches !" Hereupon the 
chieftain, without noticing anything that had passed, de- 
clared that he would fetch the prisoner, in the hope of 
making some other bargain ; but, as soon as he returned 
to his people, the whole troop rode hastily off. We after- 
wards heard that this chief was a man well known by 
the name of Miguel, one of the greatest savages among 
the whole tribe of the Apaches. 
Among these people was an old man who spoke Spanish 
