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10. which are wrapped round the legs and tied above the drawers below the knee. -- On the feet they have mostly Shoes open outside with a large flap on the strikeout: out- inside of the strikeout leg but very often only Sandals, and large spurs weighing about 12 to 16 ounces each.- Some of them indulge themselves with a Shirt, but the generality use what the Call a "Coton", made of coarse woolen stuff striped, which reaches down to the middle of the body or about covers the breast, and leaves exposed the most part of the back and belly to the Sun and air.- Over all this is placed a hat of respectable dimensions as regards brim, sometimes made of palm leaves, and sometimes of coarse woolen stuff.- It is no ways uncommon to see a big fellow on a small mule with its large saddle, tho with no other dress but his leather