My husband told me just to get out of reach of shot and shell and wait there till we heard of the victory, and I am for doing THAT, and no other thing." Nearly two hundred women, bent upon their own way, are not to be taken any other way; and the few old men who had been sent to guide the party, and shoot what game was necessary for their support, surrendered at once to this feminine mutiny.

Besides, the condition of the boys and girls between seven and fourteen was really a deplorable one.

They were too old to be cared for as infants, and they had been obliged, with the strength of children, to accomplish the labor of men and women.

Many were crippled in their feet, others were continually on the point of swooning.
It was now the 20th of April.

The Senora and her daughters had been six weeks with the American army, exposed to all the privations which such a life entailed.