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or, I will take the turkey and you may taketlie buzzard, 

 dian replied, *' You never once said turkey to me." 



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J^Gvember 27.— W 



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sition, where we had plenty of cotton wood trees, and at once 

 commenced building houses, having procured adobes for the chim- 

 neys from the ruins of Valverde. 



JVovemher 28.— This morning I got a little sapsucker, " sitta 

 Carolina," a bird that is often seen creeping on the under side of 

 limbs of trees that extend horizontally; they have three toes run- 

 eing forward, and only one backward, but their bill resembles that 

 of_a woodpecker- , - 



: heard, this morning, of the death of two of the volunteers 

 who were encamped near us. These men had gone off from camp 

 frye or six miles without any weapons, when they were attacked by 

 the Navajoes, who shot them down with reed arrows, and fhen 

 •beat out their brains with rocksj and the Indians drove off 800 

 sheep. A party of thirty immediately went out in pursuit of the 

 murderers. By the last advices they had not overtaken them. . - 



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and tnat they had taken Monterey. The person bringing this news, 

 formerly an officer in the English army, had come direct from the 

 city of Mexico. He is now at Senor Algier's camp 



During the morning I saw Mr. Glasgow, formerly our consul at Ma- 

 zatlan. He had received a letterfrom some friends in Chihuahua, con- 

 firming the news of the battle of Monterey. We also learned that 

 700 Mexicans had come up from El Paso, and had arrived in sight 



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 latter, had retued. 



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and seeing the 



Durirg the morning I went out to see some mules that were 

 branded with the letters "U.S.," when the drivers showed me a 

 certificate signed by Lieutenant Stoneman, dated in the vicinity of 

 the_copper mines on the Gila. This gave us news of the safety 



f 

 mules. 



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A day of cold drizzling rain, during which Mr. 

 „ , , Englishman previously mentioned, entered our 

 camp He told us that after the battle of Monterey there was an 

 armistice for six weeks; that General Taylor had been ordered to 

 to f Jll \^!;r ^'J^P^S^'. ^"i^ that Santa Ana had ordered his troops 



lis fo!cPs 4"" ,\r ^1^^'' ^^''^ ^' ^^« concentrating all 

 his forces. Some of the traders seem to think th^t he will be able 

 to raise an army of 30,000 men 



alfAmfrkaroffir?r!V ' ^'^'J ^''"^ 'i' ^"^^^^^ "^^"i^ter, desiring 

 theitToTte to ChJH l"" """"T^ ^T^ ^^'^'^^^ ^« English traders on 

 Iha trader. n?.n"^^r^ ^^'° other papers, in which it was stated 

 that traders of all nations would be permitted free egress, even 



4^1 "we^nVon" W M ' V'"1 "'^^^ ''^^^^^^ drivers wfalo'heard 

 CMhuahuaUl-. ^'' ^^'-fl "^f-^his Spier forced his way to 

 ^SedTn tlf . P'lrsuit by the United States dragoons-had 



fo escanVintoT ''''^''!5V^^""S^' ^"^ thirst, whilst endeavoring 

 to escape into Texas; and that General Armijo had gone to DurangoT 



