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The treaty was signed by the parties on the following conditions : viz. 

 that the government of Buenos Ayres should pay to Governor Lopez at 

 Santa Fe the sum of 12,000 dollars, together with 30,000 head of cattle, on 

 his delivery of Carrera and his officers to the Buenos Ayrian troops in San 

 Nicolas ; that Lopez should continue in the government of Santa Fe, and 

 Bustos in that of Cordova ; that the three states, Buenos Ayres, Santa Fe, 

 and Cordova, should act defensively and offensively against Ramirez, or any 

 other friend of Carrera who should resent or oppose their present undertaking. 

 Lopez had sent to Santa Fe for his dragoons, who came down the river, and 

 were disembarking at San Lorenzo in order to surprise us, and give us up to 

 the enemy before we were apprised of our danger. Having received in- 

 formation of the meditated surprise, we put ourselves in a posture for defence, 

 and at the same time began our retreat, conducted by our Indian guides. 

 We marched all that evening and night at an accelerated pace, and at twelve 

 o'clock next day we united ourselves to the forty Indians who awaited us on 

 the frontier. The dragoons of Santa Fe were unacquainted with the service 

 on which they were about to be employed, till they were ordered to take 

 horses in San Lorenzo, and then informed of the duty they had to perform. 

 The soldiers unanimously refused to take arms against the Chilenos, as they 

 called them their companions and defenders in their past campaigns. Hence 

 it is that we were not interrupted in our retreat. We continued our march 

 three days into the Pampas, not having any other food than the eggs of 

 ostriches and other wild fowls, which were for the most part addled ; the 

 soldiers, however, selected the best of them for us. We almost despaired of 

 meeting the Indians in these Pampas, where they had promised to wait our 

 orders : the Indians who accompanied us were also impatient, and on that 

 night the divines or necromancers began their sacred ceremonies ; and after 

 four hours' consultation, it was revealed to these prophets, that the next day, 

 before noon, we should discover the Indians of whom we were in search. 



Next day, about ten o'clock, we discovered the van of the Indians (thereby 

 fulfilling the prophecy of their priests), who sent out a party to reconnoitre ; 

 we followed the like example, sending a party of the Indians who were with 

 us : these parties quickly recognised each other for friends, and returned to 

 their particular corps. .Soon after the main body of the Indians appeared, 

 rising on the horizon, and continued to advance in line. A deputation of 

 Indians (with interpreters) was despatched to wait on the General, and to 

 request that the ceremonies of our meeting should be conducted in the same 



