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the topography of the country, and also the ignorance of foreign- 
ers who have lived fifteen or twenty years in Santa Fé, no one could 
‘tell me where the Rio Santa Fé debonched into the Rio Grande. — 
IT may here remark, that every night I furnished the distances 
travelled over to General Kearny at headquarters, and very often 
"(whenever required) the latitude of the camp. In many cases these 
and the distances have been published; I shall, therefore, not repeat 
“them. The latitudes in some cases have been incorrectly reported, 
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and in others recomputed, and are therefore now given as fina 
results. * 
September 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30.—We marched over the same 
ground already travelled over and described, between the 2d and 
Tth of September. . 
Below Zandia we were attracted by a great noise. It proceeded 
from a neighboring rancheria, where we saw eight or ten naked fel- 
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lows hammering away in a trough full of cornstalks,as Thad never 
seen Mexicans exert themselves before. The perspiration from 
their bodies was rolling off into the trough in profusion, and ming- 
ling with the crushed cane. This was then taken out, boiled, and 
transferred to a press, as primitiye in construction as any thing 
from the hands of Father Abraham. 
horses. A few days’ experience was quite enough to warn us that 
tant became ‘the demands of the Mexicans. 
At Albuquerque I was directed to call and see Madame Ar. 
- mijo, and ask her for the ‘map of New Mexico, belonging to her 
husband, which she had in her possession. I found. her ladyship 
sitting on an ottoman smoking, after the fashion of her country- 
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women, within reach of a small silver vase filled with coal. She © 
said she had searched for the map without success; if not in Santa 
Fé, her husband must have taken it with him to Chihuahua. 
We crossed the Rio Grande del Norte at Albuquerque, its width 
- was about twenty-five yards, and its deepest part just up to the hubs — : 
of the wheels. It is low at present, but at no time, we learned, is 
its rise excessive—scarcely exceeding one or two feet. 
We encamped a little more than half way between Albuquerque 
and Pardillas, on a sandy plain, destitute of wood, and with little 
grass. 
