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“We saw myriads of sand crane, geese, and brant. 
September 30.—Feeling no desire to go over the same eroun nd 
twice, I struck off on the table lands to the west, and found them 
a succession of rolling sand hills, with obione canescens, franseria 
acanthocarpa, yerba del sapa of the’ Mexicans, and occasionally, 
at cas long intervals, with scrub cedar, about as. ya as the boot- 
= here the hiding places of the Nav ajoes, who, me few in — 
numbers, wait for the night to déscend upon the valley and carry . . 
off the fruit, sheep, women, andgchildren of the Mexicans. | ber st 
in numbers, ‘they come in day- -tihe and levy their dues. Their 
treats and caverns are‘at a distance to the west, in high and ins 
cessible m-untains, where troops of the United States will fin 
great difficulty in overtaking and subduing them, but where the 
Mexicans have never thought of penetrating. The Navajoes may’ 
be termed the lords of New Mexico. Few in number, disdaining — 
the cultivation of the soil, and even the rearing of cattle, they 
draw all-their supplies from the valley of the Del Norte 
As we marched down the river to meet Ugarté and Armijoy: the 
Navajoes attacked the settlements three miles in our rear, killed 
one man, crippled another, and carried off a large supply of sheep 
and cattle. ‘To-day we have a report, which appears well authen- 
ticated, that the Mexicans taking courage at’ the expectations of | 
protection from the United States, had the temerity to resist a levy, 
and the aa mecges was, the loss of six men killed and two 
wounded. : 
They are prudent in their fe satapclael neyer taking so much 
from one man as to ruin him. mijo never permitted the inhabi- 
tants to war upon anne k thieves. The power he had of letting these. 
: people loose on the New Mexicans was the great secret of his ar- 
bitrary sway over a pile who hated and despised him. Any 
offender against Armijo was pretty sure to have a visit from the: 
Navajoes. 
I stopped at the little town of Isoletta, to visit my friend, the ° 
alcalde, who has the reputation, Indian though he be, of being the. 
most honest man and best maker of brandy in the territory. Mr. 
Stanly accompanied me, for the purpose of sketching one of the . 
women as a Specimen of the race. I told the alcalde our object, 
and soon a very beautiful woman made her appearance, perfectly 
conscious of the purpose for which her reschee as desired. 
Her first position wes exquisitely graceful, but the light did nct 
suit, and when Stanly ae be her position, the re of her atti- 
tude was gone 
We came down from the table lands through a ravine, where 
the lava, i in a seam of about six feet, overlaid soft sand-stone. 
the point of junction, the sand was but slightly colored. . The e lates 
was'cellular, and the holes so large that the hawks were buil ag az 
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t this ravine the Nayajoes descended when they made thé in 
t attack; at the same moment the volunteers were ascending 
other slope of the hill, on their way to garris 
n Cibolletta, 
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