This accounts for a good deal of the frightful loss of time incurred in dealing with these Indians.

The purchase of a sheep may require two days, and the negotiations concerning an ox may extend over an entire week.
That a woman of intelligence and character is appreciated even among barbarians is proven by the fact that once a woman was made gobernador, or chief, because "she knew more than men." She did not assume the title, but she is said to have ruled with more wisdom and justice than many of her predecessors and successors.
Husband and wife never show their affection in public except when drunk.

Parents kiss their little ones on the mouth and on the stomach, and the youngsters express their love for each other in the same way.

On some occasions I have seen lovers sitting closely together, she holding on to his forefinger.

The women are of a jealous disposition.
The Tarahumare standard of beauty is not in accordance with the classic ideal as we perceive it, nor is it altogether in conformity with modern views on the subject.