Among the young women or chinas, some deserve to be called even beautiful.

Their hair was coarse, but bright and black; and they wore it in two plaits hanging down to the waist.

They had a high colour, and eyes that glistened with brilliancy; their legs, feet, and arms were small and elegantly formed; their ankles, and sometimes their waists, were ornamented by broad bracelets of blue beads.

Nothing could be more interesting than some of the family groups.

A mother with one or two daughters would often come to our rancho, mounted on the same horse.