While we were waiting, the young fellows who were making candles, and a crowd of boys, crouched about the fire and watched the work.

Presently they lay down a couple of _serapes_ on the floor, and the whole group, eighteen or twenty in number, dropped down upon them, a perfect mass of humanity, packed close together in the most curiously twisted attitudes, and were fast asleep in no time.

They had no covering, but seemed to keep each other warm.

After they were fast asleep, some of the other men appeared, and we urged the bringing in of supper.

A handful of _tortillas_ and two fried eggs were not a hearty meal for six hungry persons, nor were our sleeping accommodations satisfactory.