s blade, is proof of
this. Quite as successful, too. The large drove of horses and horned
cattle, to say nothing of that crowd of despairing captives, proves the
proceeds of the later maraud worth as much, or perhaps more, than what
had been taken from the traders' waggons.

Horned Lizard is jubilant; so, also, every warrior of his band. In loss
their late foray has cost them comparatively little--only one or two of
their number, killed by the settlers while defending themselves. It
makes up for the severe chastisement sustained in their onslaught upon
the caravan. And, since the number of their tribe is reduced, there are
now the fewer to share with, so that the calicoes of Lowell, the gaudy
prints of Manchester, with stripes, shroudings, and scarlet cloth to
bedeck their bodies, hand mirrors in which to admire themselves, horses
to ride upon, mules to carry their tents, and cattle to eat--with white
women to be their concubines, and white children their attendants--all
these fine things in full possession have put the savages in high
spirits--almost maddened them with delight.

A new era has dawned upon the tribe of which Horned Lizard is head.
Hitherto it has been a somewhat starving community, its range lying amid
sterile tracts, on the upper tributaries of the Red River and Canadian.
Now, before it is a plentiful future--a time of feasting and revelry,
such as rarely occurs to a robber band, whether amidst the forest-clad
mountains of Italy, or on the treeless steppes of America.

The Tenawa chief is both joyous and triumphant. So, too, his second in
command, whose skin, with the paint cleansed from it, would show nearly
white. For he is a Mexican by birth; when a boy made prisoner by the
Comanches, and long since matriculated into the mysteries of the
redman's life--its cunning, as its cruelties.

Now a man, he is one of the chiefs of the tribe, in authority only less
than the Horned Lizard himself, but equal to the latter in all the cruel
instincts that distinguish the savage. "El Barbato" he is called, from
having a beard, though this he keeps clean shaven, the better to
assimilate himself to his beardless companions; while, with painted face
and hair black as their own, he looks as Indian as any of them. But he
has not forgotten his native tongue, and this makes him useful to those
who have adopted him, especially when raiding in the Republic of Mexico.
It was through him the Tenawa chief was first