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our visiters. Happy, cheerful, and contented, he was consulted 
in every trade, and seemed am idol with the Apaches. It required 
little penetration to trace his. origin from the same land as the 
gauze of the old woman. We tried to purchase him, but he said 
it was long, long, since he was captured, and that he had no desire 
to leave his master who, he was certam, would not sell him for 
any money. All attempts were vain, and the lad seemed gratified 
both at the offer to purchase, and the refusal to sell. ere we 
found the mountains chiefly of red ferruginous sandstone, altered 
by heat. : 
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edible nut again, Adam’s needle, small evergreen oak and cotton- - 
wood, and a gourd the cucumis perennis. 
| There was every indication of water, but none was procured on 
the surface; it could, no doubt, have been found by digging, but. 
the Gila was only twenty miles distant. - 
The last six or eight miles of our route was down the dry bed of 
a stream, in a course east of seuth, and our day’s journey did. not 
gain much in the direction of California. It was necessary to as- 
cend the’river a mile in search of grass, and then we got but an 
indifferent supply. Except in the two camps nearest to: Mount 
Turnbull, and the one at the San Carlos, we have never before, 
since leaving Santa Fé, had occasion to complain of the want of. 
grass. | 
We encamped in a*grove of cacti of all kinds; amongst them . 
,ano Mountains: 
: hen, red sandstone 
in layers a foot thick; then, granite very Coarse. The depth of 
thin seams of vitrified quartz. | 
In the dry creek down which we travelled, we saw a cave of 
n sandstone, in which a fire been built; for what pufpose 
t conjecture, as it was too small to admit aman. hod 
ches gave us to understand that a marauding party of | 
ere in Sonora. The broad fresh, trail of cattle and & 
p the,arreyo, induces the bulfelt thar they have rev» | 
course. | 
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nted my getting the rate of the chronometers. sod 
ithough we have had no rain except at Mount Graham, where 
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