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"The last is a question they must answer for themselves, but the person paddling in the bows of the canoe seems to be a white man, and a soldier or a half-soldier, if one may judge from his dress. The man in the middle of the canoe is white, also. This last fellow seems to be a parson yes, he is a clergyman, though pretty well used up in the wilderness, as to dress.
Their partisans chiefs, half-soldier, half-robber, did us more harm than the regulars, and mercy was never given or asked between them and us. Me and Rube Pearson worked mostly together. We had 'fit' the Indians out on the prairies for years side by side, and when Uncle Sam wanted men to lick the Mexicans, we concluded to go in together.
To these soon joined themselves various individuals of the half-soldier half-bandit class, so numerous in Spain men who had served in former wars, and asked no better than again to enact the scenes of bloodshed and pillage which were their element.
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