Staring doubtfully, and trembling, the buffalo swayed past, the wrinkled armor of his gray hide plastered with dry mud as with yellow ochre.

Mikon was particularly skilled in painting horses, and was the first who used for a color the light Attic ochre, and the black made from burnt vine-twigs.

To ascertain, whether the face plate bears equally, smear it over with a little red ochre and oil, and move the face plate slightly, which will fix the color upon the prominent points.

They were soon detected by other observers, especially by Mr. Lowell in 1894, who thus wrote of them: "Scattered over the orange-ochre groundwork of the continental regions of the planet, are any number of dark round spots.

About the same time changes of colour take place in the adjacent darker portions of the surface, which become at first bluish, and later a decided blue-green; but by far the larger portion, including almost all the equatorial regions of the planet, remain always of a reddish-ochre tint.

There is an abundance of the most brilliant pigment, but it is still paint,unmitigated ochre and white lead.