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JOURNAL 



September 25, 1846.— Left Santa F6, to go 13 miles to. Major 

 Sumner's camp, preparatory to start to-morrow en route to Lali- 

 fornia; camp overrun with horses to be sent to the United btates— 

 'tiragoons' horses: comman.l all mounted on mules; country desq- 

 late The creek of Santa Fe runs off in the sand a few miles below 

 town, and cultivation ceases; no "trees, cedar shrubs, dry ravines ai 

 -camp, volcanic signs, and many springs, producing ten excellent 

 springs of water, sinking almost as soon as it rises; no grass near 

 camp fit for pasture. 



September 26. 



Started with dragoons at 7-the ox teams starting 



•at davlieht; the night wa^ u.ii>.>«-" — , . — — -,-, . «: „.„ trT^ 

 through^amp afte? the corn blades purchased by the officers for 



tbeir horses and mules; the grass was all 



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eaten out before about 



ifleir norses ana inuit&i tuc ^laoo ..«- — — , 4.u;„i„ ^r.^ 



camp and the country around Santa Fe, and to-day is thin ycov^ 

 ered with grama grass and occasional cedar shrubs, ^^^^^^"'"g ^\^^ 

 greatest sterility; the newpess of the country ^^^PP^^^j' „^^^? w 

 to-day a succession of strata dipping to the east ^^-^ Pf ^^ ^'^^ 

 and red marl, and white clay, intersected TJ^^^^^/^^^J^J^V^f ^f 

 ^oulh of camp a high nob is formed by an abrupt es^^PJ^^^^^ 

 secluded shrub, dipping from the b uff to ^^f J Jf, ^^!^^^ P^"^^' 

 to-day sudor volcanoes; the country is covered ^'^^/'Y^l'/^^f [H 

 west of Del Norte, and in many places on the ^^.^^^^ P^^^J^^^^.^';^ 

 artemesia sort abundant; several mules missing ^^/^J^'^^^^^ '^ 

 wagons broke to-day-one a king bolt and one a tongue, camp m 

 toUrable grass near San Philippe, on the Del Norte ^ ^ 



«. , P ^^ \if^^^-u^A ot R- m'Anv of the uiules vtnicn dfokc 



8; many of the 



- September 27.— marcnea ui o, ii.a..j -. :"\,-- ^^^-^^ t_ catclt 

 loose during the night gave much trouble in the «^^ ^^"l^/^/^^;^^ 



1 1 • *^ «f fVioIi- i^pnrpfla ions on corn ucius wcj«^ 



them; some complaints of ^^eir depreda.io ^^ ^^^ 



coftlo,^ Kv nnv nfr damaees. Passed Aigououes, *> ,-..,_ L-_- 



settled, by paying damages. "^X" of novertv, very little being 

 Sandia. In Algodones there was signs ot P^'^^^J ' "^-."l^-. •.,, -»^ 

 required, apparently, to feed the peep e upon Fitzpatnck 

 marked, that he now thought more -f O^PPro 



Fitzpatrick 

 u. .M... of Oregon, as he had seea 



many places there as good or better ^^-,J^': jj,^7any popula- 

 Norte, w'hich he had not thought ever ^^^ud support any pop 



tion. 'At^Bernalillo the wealthy -'^^^ ^^ ^i\SX' on the flats, 

 delicious wine. The grape grows upon small ^^^^^'^^^ ,^^^/^ 



and is irrigated ^ij^^^^^^^j-.'.ar. afalso any grape'cuhivated in 

 inferor to any in the United States, 7^^^''°/^Jtfij,i^ the mould oa 

 the open air. Fences are made of ^^7' ^> f ^^ ^^ thus formed to 

 the wall and filling it, and leaving the 'arge Imc^ ^^^ ^^^^ 



dry there. They appear to be rather used to ke p ^^^ ^^^^ 



horses or animals, as m many places the 



