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Stealing our horses to sell to the Mexicans, if you please, and selling his own to the government mostly but some to the Mexicans, too, I suppose. And nobody suspecting a thing all the while, and Tex in with them and all. And if you hadn't stampeded the horses so they came back to the line, and the boys rounded them up, dad would have lost a lot more than he did.
The Mexicans said they would report me to the government, and I had no doubt they would. As soon as I got to Santa Fe I went to see General Harney, ex-governor of New Mexico. I told him what I had done and why I did it. General Harney told me he was glad I had notified him right away and said he would explain this transportation of the patent office books to the fourth assistant postmaster.
Yet there seemed to be some pressing necessity for continuing the march; and presently some of the older Mexicans, who appeared to have the direction of the caravan, came up to us and enquired how we felt, and if we thought we were able to travel; adding, that from the signs on the earth and in the air, they feared a storm, and that the nearest habitation or shelter was at many leagues' distance.
He next turns up as a hunter and trapper; when, in this capacity, he became more celebrated for his wild and daring adventures than before he had been for his mild precepts. By many of his companions, he was looked upon as a man who was partially insane. Williams proved to be a perfect enigma and terror to the Mexicans, who thought him possessed of an evil spirit.
Two men, in a savage desert, pursue day and night an unknown body of Indians into the defiles of an unknown mountain attack them on sight, without counting numbers and defeat them in an instant and for what? To punish the robbers of the desert, and to avenge the wrongs of Mexicans whom they did not know.
In another moment he was lying half-strangled upon the ground, and a dozen hands bound his hands behind him and his feet together with cowhide thongs. Then they stood looking at him as if he was some devil. And no wonder. Seven Mexicans lay dead on the ground, and many more were lying panting and bleeding around.
The old plough, as frequently used at the present time by the New Mexicans, is indeed a curiosity, as it probably was invented in the earliest times. It consists of one piece of timber which is crooked the proper shape by nature; the end of this is sharpened, and on it is fastened a single piece of iron which has an attempt at a sharp point.
One of those was a beautiful white wolf, that the Mexicans called Blanca; this was supposed to be a female, possibly Lobo's mate. Another was a yellow wolf of remarkable swiftness, which, according to current stories had, on several occasions, captured an antelope for the pack. It will be seen, then, that these wolves were thoroughly well-known to the cowboys and shepherds.
There was no chance for the Texans to retreat, but it was not of retreat that they were thinking. "How's your pulse, Ned?" asked the Ring Tailed Panther. "It's beating fast and hard, I won't deny that," replied Ned, "but I believe my finger will be steady when it presses the trigger." "Fine feathers make fine Mexicans," said Obed White. "How they do love color!
"What will you buy, worthy gentlemen what will you buy?" exclaimed many voices as they passed. "Buy any Pennsylvanians, gents?" said a man in the raiment of a Quaker. "Heavy stock, heavy stock, Jonathan!" cried another. "Buy my Mexicans best Mexicans!" said a third. "Would not take a present of them gratis," cried a fourth. "Spanish three's reduced who'll buy?" said a fifth.
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