They do not differ much from the inhabitants of the high plains, either in costume, customs, or otherwise.

In fact, there is a homogeneousness about the inhabitants of all Spanish America--making allowance for difference of climate and other peculiarities--rarely found in any other people.
-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Before daybreak of the morning after my interview with the "swearing major", a head appeared between the flaps of my tent.

It was that of Sergeant Bob Lincoln.
"The men air under arms, Cap'n." "Very well," cried I, leaping from my bed, and hastily buckling on my accoutrements.
I looked forth.

The moon was still brightly shining, and I could see a number of uniformed men standing upon the company parade, in double rank.

Directly in front of my tent a small boy was saddling a very small horse.