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of uncultivated land within the levee? irrigation. Wenow began 
Yow 
After travelling ten miles: we came to, the Coyotes, a rancheria 
pwnedest<) widow lady, who had just married a handsome 
young 
ecame in sight of theSanGabriel river. _ 
: uad : 
and it besanie aye apparent thesehony intended to dispute the 
river. Pita dg 
“pulled over by the men, and placed in counter 
passage of the 
carbiniers in the rear; our cattle and the wagon train in the centre, — 
a habitually in the order to resist cavalry attacks when ” 
‘enemy. We had no cavalry, and the object of the 
er’ uick-sand. Eit 
at point bein a on ; 
As we neared the thicket, we receive 
A squadron of 250 cavalry just showed their heads above t] 
the river. As the line wasabout the middle 
opened his battery, and made the water fly with 
hot. Our artillery was now ordered to cross—1i 
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