So they went slowly down, occasionally killing a couple of hostile natives, or deer, panthers, foxes, or wild-cats.

One animal is described as like an African leopard, the first they had ever seen.

At length they came to a tribe much shorter of stature than the Yumas, and friendly.

These were probably Cocopas.

Not a patch of clothing existed in the whole band, and Pattie's men gave the women some old shirts, intimating, as well as they could, that they ought to wear some covering.