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| lancing him a yolley, strange to say he did nét fall. Almost at the — 
same instant, but a little before it, the Californians from the hill 
' did ‘fire on the vaqueros. “The rifles were then ordered to clear the 
hill, which a single fire effected, killing two of the enemy. We 
_ were now in possession of the town; great silence and mystery 
was observed by the Californians in regard to Flores; but we Were 
given to understand that he had gone to fight the force from the 
_ north, drive them back, and then starve us out of the town, ‘To- 
wards the close of the day we learned very certainly that Flores, 
with 150 men, chiefly Sonorians, and desperadoes of the country, 
had fled to Sonora, taking with him four or five hundred of the best 
horses and mulesin the country, the property of his own friends. The 
silence of the Californians was now changed into deepgand bitter 
curses upon Flores. ¥ ; Se Age ae 
ome slight disorder took place among our men at night, from 
‘the facility of getting wine, but the vigilance of the officers soon 
suppressed it. 
January 11.—It rained in torrents all day. I was ordered to se- 
with this in view, arapid reconnoissance of the town was made, and 
- the plan of a fort sketched, so placed as to enable a small garrison 
- to command the town and the principal avenues to it. The plan 
_ was approved. Many men-came in during the day and surrendered 
themselves. 
_ January 12.—I laid off the work, and, before night, broke the 
_ first ground. The population of the town, and its dependencies, is 
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sequently to my leaving the Cindad de los Angeles, the ei the fort was 
i, and Fam not the projector of the work-fmallyadegied for f that town. 
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- dect a site, and place a fort, capable of containing a hundred men; 
