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with great sgitebitigy ‘The talk was long and tedious. I exhausted : 
every argument to induce him to e into camp.. His pri ngpe 
fear seemed to be the howitzers, which recalled at once to my mind 
ihe story I had heard of the»massacre by Johnson. At last a bold 
_ young fellow tired of the parley threw down hiseifle, and with a 
“step that Forrest in "Metatiiors might have envied, strode off to- 
wards camp, piloted by Carson. We were about to follow, when 
the chief informed us it would be more agreeable to him if we re- 
mained until his warrior returned. 
The ice was now broken, most of them =e that their comrade 
head, but true of heart.’’ . Presents were « sssnibated they promised 
a guide to pilot us over the mountain, fi istant, to a spring 
with plenty of good grass, where the’ Scone o meet us mext 
day with 100 mules. é : 
The mezcal flourishes here; odied at intorzale of a half amile or 
so we found several artificial craters, into which the Indians throw 
ny fruit, with heated stones, to remove the shorp thorns and re- 
duet it to its saccharine state. 
Observed last night for latitude and time, an our position i is ing: 
latitude 33° 14’ 54’, longitude 110° 45’ 06". Our camp was on n the 
the head of a creek ‘whieh, after running in a faint stream one bun- 
dred yards, disappeared Belew the surface of the earth. On its 
margin grew a species of ash unknown in the United States, and 
the California plane tree, which is also distinct in species from our 
sycamore. * ; 
November 3.—Our expectations were again disappointed, the In- . 
dians came, but only seven mules were the result of the days? la- 
bor, not a tenth of the number absolutely required. . 
Our visiters to-day presented the same motley sroup we hay 
always found the Apaches. Amongst them was a middle-aged wo- 
man; whose garrulity and interference in every trade. was the an- 
noyance of ee. Swords, who had charge of the trading, but the 
amusement of th A by-standers. : 
She had on a gauze-like dress, trimmed with the ahanl and most — 
costly Brussels em pillaged no doubt from some fandango-going “ 
belle of Sonora; she straddled a fine grey horse, and whenever her _ 
blanket dropped from her shoulders, her tawny form could be seen 
through the transparent gauze. After she had sold her mule, she 
Was.anxious to sell her horse, and careered about to show his quali- 
ties* Atone time she charged at full speed wpa steep hill. In this,” 
the fastenings of her dress broke, and her bare back was €xp: 
the crowd, who ungallantly raised. a shout of laughter. N 
- daunted, she wheeled short round with surprising dexteril 
» Seeing the mischief done, coolly slipped .the,dress from ar 
and tucked it between her seat and it saddle. In this stat : 
‘ nudity she rode through camp, knoll re t¢ Ee until, at. last, at- 
taining the object of her apibition, & a soldier’s red flannel shirt, she 
made her adieu in that new costum 
A boy about 12 years of age, afte uncommon 1 beauty, was among 
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