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~ ee and infinitely better Sliced. than those we met yes- 
terday, resembling strongly the Apaches of the copper mines, and 
like them decked in the plundered garb of the Mexicans 
The. day passed, but no Indians came; treacherous shesabe bay » 
they expect treachery in others. At ev erlasting war with the rest 
of mankiad, they kill at sight all who fall in their power. The 
conduct of the Mexicans to them is equally bad, for they decoy 
and kill the Apaches whenever they can. The former Governor of 
Sonora. employed a bold and intrepid Irishman, named Kirker, to 
hunt the Apaches He had in his employment whites and Delaware 
Indians, and was allowed, besides a per diem, $100 per scalp, and 
$25 for a prisoner. A story is also told of dne Johnson, an Eng- 
lishman, an Apache trader, who, allured by the reward, induced a 
number of these people to come to his camp, and placed a barrel 
of flour for them to help themselves; when the crowd was thickest | 
of me eh women, and children, he fired a six ponndet amongst them 
from a ‘concealed place and killed great number %. 
13 circum-meridian altitudes of beta eae oP altitude of» 
polaris give the’ latitude of this camp 33° 14’ 29’. The lon 
by 12 lunar distancés E. and W. is 110° 30° 24". 4 
Novem er 1.—No alternative seemed to offer but to pursue a ae 
son’s old trail sixty miles over a rough country, without water, 
and two, if-not three days’ journey. Under this, in their shattered 
condition, our mules must sink. We followed the Gila river six or 
seven miles, when it became necessary to leave it, how long _ 
_ Was uncertain. Giving our animals a bite of the luxurious grama 
on the river banks, we filled every vessel capable of holding water, 4 
and commenced the jornada. The ascent was very rapid, the hills 
Steep, and the — insecure. After travelling five or six me) 
Meet with water again Bt ook advantage of the early halt to 
cend, with the barometer, a very high peak overhanging the camp, 
which I took to be the loftiest in the Pifion Lano range on the wee 
side of the Gila. 
Its approximate height was only 5,724 feet above the -sea. The 
view was very extensive; rugged mountains bounded the entire _ 
horizon. Very far to the northeast was a haa of mountains 
covered with snow, but I could not decide whether it was the range 
on the east side of the Del Norte or the Sierras Mimbres. Near the 
top of this peak the mezcal grew in abundance, and with the we 4 
of one 25 feet long we erected a flag-s staff. Here too we - u d 
uge masses of the conglomerate before described, ‘appare 
a 3 it had been aerapted in rolling: from an. impending heights but 
vening ravines were deep. Lower down we found a large mass of *, . 
-™Mahy thousand tons of the finer pecometie, the. apepeee of a trun- 
