What other troops in the world are so independent?
With the sun for their guide, mare's flesh for food, their saddle-cloths for beds,--as long as there is a little water, these men would penetrate to the end of the world.
A few days afterwards I saw another troop of these banditti-like soldiers start on an expedition against a tribe of Indians at the small Salinas, who had been betrayed by a prisoner cacique.

The Spaniard who brought the orders for this expedition was a very intelligent man.

He gave me an account of the last engagement at which he was present.

Some Indians, who had been taken prisoners, gave information of a tribe living north of the Colorado.

Two hundred soldiers were sent; and they first discovered the Indians by a cloud of dust from their horses' feet as they chanced to be travelling.