He wore a pair of blue overalls, a blue woolen shirt and the same little narrow rimmed hat he had worn so long.

I observed, too, that he was barefoot, and told him I had a dollar or two which he could take and get some shoes.

He said it was no use for there was not a pair of shoes in the town to buy, and he had not found any material of which he could make himself a pair of moccasins.

I told him how I had been swindled coming up, and he was about as angry as I had been.

I think if I had known that my friend John Rogers had been so near I should have bidden the rascals an unceremonious good-bye and we would have been able to hold our own on a claim for the services of myself and mule.
We went up to the place where our people were camped, perhaps a mile above town on the bank of a river, nearly dry, but where plenty of wood, water and grass were at hand; such a place as we had looked for in vain for many a weary day upon the desert.