CHAPTER XIII 



A JOURNEY AND HUNT THROUGH NEW MEXICO. 

 START FOR SOUTH AMERICA. 



MR. BARRILL seemed very much pleased when informed 

 that I had resolved to accompany him in his distant ex- 

 peditions. He immediately gave me several valuable 

 presents among them being a handsome bullet-pouch, a 

 powder-flask, and a finely mounted revolver. My rifle 

 was equal to any to be seen at the station. Mr. Barrill 

 then informed me that he intended to proceed to South 

 America, to try hunting in the forests of Brazil, and upon 

 the vast plains called the Pampas. After much delibe- 

 ration, he had decided to journey through New Mexico, 

 by way of the Rio Grand and the Gulf of Mexico, to New 

 Orleans, where passage could be secured to Rio Janeiro. 

 This arrangement was satisfactory to me. I merely sug- 

 gested that we should take- the vale of Taos, that Para- 

 dise of mountaineers, on our way through New Mexico. 

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