The "hog and hominy," the general diet of the Southwest, is plainly perceptible in the physique of the women.

The male travelers, who are not indigenous to the soil, are more roughly clothed and more careless in manner than the same order of passengers between New York and Boston.

Of those who enter and leave at way-stations, the men are clad in that yellow, homespun material known as "butternut." The casual observer inclines to the opinion that there are no good bathing-places where these men reside.

They are inquisitive, ignorant, unkempt, but generally civil.

The women are the reverse of attractive, and are usually uncivil and ignorant.
The majority are addicted to smoking, and generally make use of a cob-pipe.