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present to him from Don Jesus, he (Don Jesus) de- 

 sired to make an experiment of what one of them 

 could do. They were brothers, on a grass younger 

 than the other, both of the same color, (cinnamon,) 

 and hence called el canalo or los canalos, (< the cinna- 

 mon' or <the cinnamons.') The elder was to be 

 taken for the trial, and the journey commenced 

 upon him at leaving Monterey, the afternoon well 

 advanced. Thirty miles under the saddle done that 

 evening and the party stopped for the night. In 

 the morning the elder canalo was again under the 

 saddle for Colonel Fremont, and for ninety miles he 

 carried him without a change and without apparent 

 fatigue. It was still thirty miles to San Luis Obispo, 

 where -the night was to be passed; and Don Jesus 

 insisted that canalo could do it, and so said the 

 horse by his looks and action. But Colonel Fre- 

 mont would not put him to the trial, and, shifting 

 the saddle to the younger brother, the elder was 

 turned loose to run the remaining thirty miles with- 

 . out a rider. He did so, immediately taking the lead 

 and keeping it all the way, and entering San Luis 

 in a sweeping gallop, nostrils distended, snuffing 

 the air, and neighing with exultation at his return 

 to his native pastures, his younger brother all the 

 time at the head of the horses under the saddle, 

 bearing ou his bit and held in by his rider. The 



