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panes the mineral raugaan, I have to mention that we saw in the plain, 
east of Monterey, the American partridge, or quail, Se Virginiana) again, 
which is never found in the higher regions of n 
stead of it, a related bird, the ortyx squamata, Vigor 5 
About six miles from Marin is the spot where General Canale’, with his 
guerilla bands, had captured, some months raat a rich train of the Ameri- 
ean army, and killed most of the unarmed wagon drivers. The bones of 
these ill fated men, which were either not buried at all or  dragzed out by 
“the wolves, were scattered about in all directions. Another more horrid 
spectacle offered itself to our eyes near Agua Negra, a deserted village, 
where a man (and, to judge from pieces of slotting an American) had been 
burnt to to ashes, some bones only being left. In seeing such re RS 
known only in old Indian warfare, can any one blame the Amer 
troops for having sought revenge, and burning all the villages and rated 
on their route which gave refuge to such bands of worse than highway rob- 
bers? The right of retaliation, as well as expediency, command, in my 
opinion, such measures against such unusual warfare; and when carried 
out with some cireumspection, it will break ay these guerilla bands much 
sooner than too lenient a 
About half way on our ad we passed a deserted rancho, with water; 
but we marched on to Carrizitos, a place with several burnt ‘ranchos, but 
with a fine creek, excellent stile , and plenty of wood. 
ay 29.—In the forenoon we went but seven miles, through chaparral 
plain, to Cerralbo, a tolerably good looking town, with many houses of 
stone, and some silver mines in the neighborhood. We made a noon halt 
to-day. Some troops of North Carolina and a company of Texan : oe 
were stationed here. The latter had captured this morning a well- 
known chief of a guerilla band, who was said to have committed many 
a against st Americans. He was sentenced to be shot, but refused to 
smoking it 
died ° aunts His name was Nicholas tet ie and iwtether Pabst or 
innocent, he died like a brave man. Some rumor was afterwards started 
that he was the brother of General Canales, but in Cerralbo I understood 
that a was well known there; that his mother lived there yet, and that he 
had no other connexion with Canales than having belonged to his bands. 
From Cerralbo we. marched that afternoon 15 miles, to Puntiagudo, a 
burnt village on a creek, which is one of the headwaters of the Alamo. 
Cerralbo is 1,000, Puntiagudo but 700 feet above the sea. Since our de- 
scent from Monterey, we have constant east ‘and southeast winds comin; 
from = Le, heavy dews wet our blankets every night. Since we 
e high 
rc 5 a ore we aha de often in, we ‘sandy parts of the 
