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teo creek, but ‘after leaving Santa Fé some miles, a few sprigs of 
grama tempted us’to halt and bait our nags; but the principal 
growth on the plains was ephedra, Frémontia vermicularis,-diotis 
Janata, (Romeria of the Spaniards,),hendecandia Texana. There 
was also picked up in to-day’s journey a verbena pinnatifida, splia- 
eralcea stellata, a éleome integrifolia, (a handsome purple flowered 
herb,) several aster and a species of dicteria, which Dr. Torrey thinks 
new. ) 3 ; 
September 3.—This has been a great.day.. An invitation was re- 
ceived, some days since, from the Pueblo Indians to visit their town 
of Santo Domingo. From height to height, as-we advanced, we 
saw-horsemen disappearing at full speed. Ss we arrived abreast 
of the town we were shown by a guide, posted there for the pur- 
pose, the road to Santo Domingo. The chief part of the command 
and the wagon train were sent along the highway; the general with 
his staff and Captain Burgwyn’s squadron of dragoons, wended his 
way along the bridle path nearly due west to the town. We had 
not proceeded far, before we met ten or fifteen sachemic looking 
old Indians, well mounted, and two of them carrying gold-headed 
canes with tassels, the emblems of office in New Mexico. : 
Salutations over, we jogged along, and, in the curse of conyer- 
sation, the alcalde, a grave and majestic old Indian, said, as if 
casually, ‘ We shall meet some Indians presently, mounted and 
dressed for war, but they are the young men of my town, friends 
come to receive you, and I wish you to caution your men not to 
fire upon them when they ride. towards them.” ? - 
hen within a few miles of the town, we saw a cloud of ‘dust. 
rapidly advancing, and soon the air was rent with a terrible yelly.- 
resembling the Florida war-whoop. The first object that caught my 
eye through the column of dust, was a fierce pair of buffalo horns, — 
overlapped with long shaggy hair. As they approached, the sturdy 
form of a naked Indian revealed itself beneath the horns, with 
shield and lance, dashing at full speed, on a white “horse, which, — 
like his own body, was pai ted.al he colors of the rainbow; and 
then, one by one, his followers came on, painted to the eyes, their 
own heads and their horses covered with all the stra equi nts 
that the brute creation could afford in the way of b 
tails, feathers, and cla . ae *. ai 
» As they passed us, | k on each side, they fired a1 
s’ bel left. 
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well-trained dragoo 
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h overhangs the town. , There 
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