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cated pyramid standing on its smallest base. If appeared so nicely 
balanced, a feather might have overthrown #. A well levelled seat 
of large slabs of red ferruginous sand-stone altered by heat indi- 
» cated we'were not on untrodden ground. It was the watch-tower 
of the Apache; from it he could track the valley of the Gila beyond 
the base of Mount Graham. © 
At the point where we left the Gila, there stands a cactus six 
feet in circumference, and so high I could not reach half way to 
the top of it with the point of my sabre by many feet; and a short 
distance up the ravine is a grove of these or pitahaya, much larger 
than the one I measured, and with Jarge branches. These plants 
bear a saccharine fruit much prized by the Indians and Mexicans. 
“ They are without leaves, the fruit growing to the boughs. The 
fruit resembles the burr of a chesnut and is full of prickles, but the 
', pulp resembles that of the fig, only more soft and luscious,” In 
some it is white, in some red, and in others yellow, but always of 
pee rite taste. sc ee sake 
A new shrub bearing a delicious nutritious nut and in sufficient 
abundance to form an article of food for the Apaches. Mezcal and 
- the fruit of the agave Americana, and for the first time arctosta- 
_ phylos pungens. ‘Two or three new shrubs and flowers. 
The formation near the mouth of the San Francisco is diluvion, 
* 
Movember 2.—The call to water sounded long before day-light, | 
Se mR camp, the horses were grazing on the hill side still beyond 
ant 
efore I could loosen a 
the mules. ‘’To arms” was shouted, and befor 
e in full run to the scene ~ 
ol from the holster my little party wer 
of alarm, each with his rifle. On turning the hill we found the 
_ horses tranquilly grazing, but the hill overlooking them was lined 
with horsemen. - As we advanced, one of the number hailed us in 
_ Spanish, saying he wished to have “a talk.” 
They were Apaches, and it had been for some time our earnest 
~ desire to trade with them, and hitherto we had been unsuccessful. 
“ One of you put down your rifle and come to us,” said the Span- 
: ish-tongued Indian. Londean, my employé before-mentioned, im- 
: mediately complied, I followed; but before reaching half-way up 
_ the steep hill, the Indian espied in my jacket the handle of a large 
_ horse pistol. He told me I must put down my pistol before he 
_ would meet me. I threw it aside and proceeded to the top of the 
_ hill, where, although he was’ mounted and surrounded by six or 
gl of his own men armed with rifles and arrows, he received me 
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