They might have reached the valley without this circumstance, by a trail well known and often travelled.

But it appeared as if this was just what they wanted to avoid.
One of the men composing this party was he already remarked upon as having a large beard and whiskers.

A second was one of those spoken of as more slightly furnished with these appendages, while the other two were beardless.
All four were of deep bronze complexion, and to all appearance pure-blooded aboriginals.

That the two with hirsute sign spoke to one another in Spanish was no sure evidence of their not being Indians.

It was within the limits of New Mexican territory, where there are many Indians who converse in Castilian as an ordinary language.
He with the whiskered cheeks--the chief of the quartet, as well as the tallest of them--had not left behind the share of plunder that had been allotted to him.