A print of a Mexican Lepero shown with a walking stick, sombrero (hat), and a blanket wrapped around him. Oswandel shares with other U.S. soldiers a commonly biased negative view of street beggars, or "leperos" by describing them as "the most miserable set of living beings you ever heard tell of, they are the remnants of the Comanche tribe of Indians, and go through the streets of cities with only a blanket wrapped around them [... they] were that portion of the mob of Mexico, which fired on our troops, and which had since had a hand in most of the assassinations of our soldiers." Oswandel also describes the leperos as being lazy, living off the land, interested in entertainment like bull-fights, and as Indian (decendents of the Aztecs) rebels. [This lithograph is from the book "Notes of the Mexican War 1846-47-48, Revised 1885, Illustrated" by J. Jacob Oswandel, page 535.]
