Such are the battles of New Mexico.

It is only when these red-skinned Tartars meet Americans or such high-spirited Indians as the Opates that they have to recoil before gunpowder.

[Footnote: Since those times the Apaches have learned to use firearms.] The fact that Coronado dared ride into this camp of thieving assassins shows what risks he could force himself to run when he thought it necessary.

He was not physically a very brave man; he had no pugnacity and no adventurous love of danger for its own sake; but when he was resolved on an enterprise, he could go through with it.
There was a rest of several hours.

The rancheros fed the horses on corn which they had brought in small sacks.