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a eeaie tinea some of. the fair sefioritas he had never given us cause for 
offence, we moved off in a body as happy as freemen, under such circum- 
stances, can be, and two days afterwards we entered Chihuahua ‘again. 
y looked rather differently from what it did formerly, “but not for 
The 
the worse, One half of the Mexican population had left the city, from fear 
that the Americans would. after their tmnt act as meanly and overbear- © 
ing as they had done themselves. before it; but in that they were cre , 
inted—no excesses were committed, ge the Mexicans were treated as 
mercifully as ever a vanquished enemy was by a-generous victor. 
But, really, ~seeh a ragged set of men those brave Missouri bout were ! 
There was not one, among them in complete uniform, and not two in . 
the whole regiment aeesed alike: each one had eoualtad other his own | 
fancy or necessity, in arrange the remnants of former comfort, to. produce 
—. appearance. Some of the resident Americans in Chi huahua, - 
mete the battle the first American companies entered . 
don town and halted on the Plaza, were so thunderstruck by the savage 
ir own countrymen, that they ran back to their houses to as- 
exterior of the 
— first to what tribe or nation they belonged. But, notwithstanding 
ness, there was some peculiar expression in their eye, meaning ~ 
thar zahey had seen Brazito and Sacramento, and that Mexicans could not, 
hten them even by ten-fold numbers. ‘es ng the troops I met with — 
some old friends from | Mspone and fegto our stay in Chihuahua I ‘ba 
came acquainted with many officers and men whose knowledge and 
bravery would do honor to any army, se whose gentlemanly deportment © 
I shall always recollect with pleasure. Bnt, for the present, we will leave , 
Colonel 
n with his regiment in their comfortable sh in Chi- 
huahua, and. ks. a review of the State and city of Chihu 
tapes return to: me United States. 
Statistics of the State of en. 
1 Phe tet tory of the State of Ch thaahua contains an area of 17 re 
,169 English pies miles, and reaches from 26° 53” 
square leagues, or 119 
a0" 0 a 57 3! north latitude. Its boundaries are, towards the north,’ 
5 towards the Last, Coshuits: and Texas; towards the south 
to the nort thwest, Sonora. The grea 
mouniain chain of Mexico, , the th Rocky moun ae 
of the north and. the Andes of the south of this continent, is known here 
ancients and occupies ehielly the western part of the See, ° where i Tt 
suis are intron Pai the eas t by fine vale? and plains. ‘The 
eastern portion of the State is less mountainous, containing wide plains, 
sreater part on the broad and hig h Batchit, the flattened 
jleras that from. Bey ged as far south as the 
utr t, into tl he Gulf ot 
acific ; thi ppnow at within the State. sb. 
ua, before our 
aun in the State of Cae 
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