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of trouble. In the meanwhile, Armijo raved, 

 and threatened the Americans for not ferret- 

 ing out their countryman and dehvering him 

 over to justice. Failing to produce any im- 

 pression by blustering, however, he caused a 

 couple of cannons to be pointed at the house 

 where the offender was supposed to be conceal- 

 ed, declaring at the same time that he would 

 batter it down ; but all to no purpose. Mr. 

 Sublette finally conveyed his furs in safety to 

 the frontier, and thence to the United States. 

 The following anecdote affords another il- 

 lustration of Armijo's summary mode of deal- 

 ing with Americans. In the fall of 1840 a 

 gross outrage was committed upon a physi- 

 cian from Massachusetts (said to be a gentle- 

 man of unexceptionable deportment), who 

 was traveUinff through the country for ^^'^ 



health. He had loaned nine hundred dollars 

 to a person of the name of Tayon, who after- 

 wards borrowed the same amount of another 

 foreigner and repaid this debt. The doctor 

 then left for the South, where he intended to 

 pass the winter, being aflhcted with a pulmo- 

 nary disease. But the individual who had 

 lent Tayon the money, being informed that 

 he was insolvent, applied to Gov. Armijo tor 

 an order to compel the doctor to return, ex- 

 pecting thereby to make him reimburse the 

 money. The order overtook him at the village 

 of Algodones, near fortv mUes from Santa le, 

 where he was at once arrested by the alcalde, 

 and detained some time, ignorant even ot 

 the offence for which he was doing penance. 



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