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from accident, or if Ugarte’s bands had raised it to molest us; or if, perhaps 
a disciple of 
grass. We pitched our camp in this plain. We have travelled to- 
day, according to my estimate, about 40 miles. The long distance, as well 
as the want of water, the excessive heat, and especially the tremendous 
dust in the narrow road between the chaparrals, made to-day’s march one 
of the most fatiguing. foe? os 
_.May 6.—We started late to-day, and made but 10 miles, to the Cerro 
Gordo, or el Andabazo creek. Having crossed the mountain, at whose 
foot San Bernardo lies, we went for a mile through a cafion, with moun- 
tains of limestone on both sides, and from there into another valley, water- 
ed by the el Andabazo. This considerable creek seems to run from south- . 
west to northeast; but whether it is connected with the Nasas river, or, 
what is more likely, runs into lake Paloma, a small lake northeast from 
the large Laguna de Tlagualila, I was unable to ascertain. The Mexicans 
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_are generally so indifferent as to the geography of their neighborhood, that 
a traveller is often at a loss how to reconcile the many different statements. 
On the left bank of the river was a deserted rancho: we crossed the water 
and enca on the other side, amidst chaparral. 
May 7.—Made 25 miles to-day, to the hacienda de José de Pelayo. 
The country over which we travelled is a wide plain, with distant hills 
C il shrubs, 
towards east and west. Cha and on the higher places 
a great deal of lechugui | size 
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