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Shorn of his shaggy coat, with his tail trimmed smooth as that of a greyhound his skin, moreover, stained Indian fashion there seemed but slight danger that the animal could be recognised. A few hours' ride brought us to the western end of the pass; when, rounding a spur of the mountain, a wide plain was suddenly displayed to our view. "Mira!" exclaimed the Mexican, "el campamento de los Judios!"

"She did accept him?" "Yes but now comes the strange part of the story. All I have told you is but a common tale, and the like occurs every day in the year." "Go on!" "When she married the Mormon, she did not know he was a Mormon; and it appears that these hereticos have a name among your people worse than the very Judios.

From the elevation on which we stood, we could trace its tortuous windings, towards the distant Sierra of San Juan; and in the concavity of one of these almost upon the verge of our vision we beheld "el campamento de los Judios." Unprepared for it, we should never have thought of taking what we saw for an encampment of Mormons, or men of any kind.

Not one of their whole fraternity could follow the trace of a buffalo in snow-time. Carrambo! No." "There is one who could," I replied; "one who could follow a feebler trail than ours." "What! A rastreador among these Judios! Who, cavallero?" "Their father!" I whispered the reply, so that neither of the girls should overhear it.