eof the ownership and destination of the horses. 
cupation of trappers, and ascertain whom, and what, the man guar- 
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‘sent in man for man. It was not Castro, as we expected, but a 
__party.of Mexieans with 500 horses from California, on their way 
_ to Sonora for the benefit of Castro. 
«plying the Sonora market with horses. We subsequently learned 
.of 90 miles, which lies on thé other side of the Colorado, and be- 
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ican. I sent Londeau and Martinez with orders to assume the oc- 
ed. Thé conference was short; other. Mexicans advanced, and I 
I took the four principal men to the general, and lefta guard to 
watch the camp and see that no attempt was made to escape. The ax 
men were examined ‘separately, and each gave a different account 
The chief of the party, a tall, venerable looking man, represented 
himself to be a poor employé of several rich men engage in sup- 
that he was no less a personage than Jose Maria Leguna, a colonel 
in the Mexican service. reat 
/ November 23.—We did not move camp to-day, in order to make 
arefit from last night’s capture, and give our mules an opportu- 
nity to pick what little grass they could before taking the desert 
tween us and water. oe 
Warner, Stanley, and myself, saddled’ up to visit the junction of — 
the Gila and Colorado, which we found due north from our camp, — 
and about a mile and a half distant. The day was stormy, the 
from the north. We mounted a butte of = 
te, and, looking 26° east of north, the course of 
ras tracked by clouds of Sying sone The Gila — 
the. , 
and up, at least, to this point, there is little doubt that the Colo- a 
rado is always navigable for steamboats. Above, the Colorado is — 
ceptible of navigatio 
_ full of shifting sandbars, but is, no doubt, to a great extent sus- 
the renowned missionary, Fat This mission was event 
ally sacked by the Indians, and the inhabitants all murdered o 
riven off t will probably ye ty of wealth 
and importance, most of the mineral and fur regions of a 
tent of country being drain The stone butte 
ore than a mil 
the Colorad 
