Like their leader, they were full-blooded Mexicans, with enormous mustaches, and long, tangled hair, which looked as though it had never seen a comb.

They were dressed in gay-colored clothes--blue jackets, buckskin pants, very wide at the knee, and covered with buttons, ribbons, and gold lace.

They wore long sashes around their waists, which were thrust full of bowie-knives and revolvers.

They carried short, heavy rifles, slung over their shoulders by leather bands, and behind their saddles were their ponchos, which did duty both as overcoats and beds.

Taken altogether, they were a hard-looking set, and seemed capable of any atrocity.