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' They were naked, 
had. been. carried off captive. re: 
abo, which had iain to Pablo’s mother, remained with the dead~ 
and was frantic with joy at seeing Pablo: he, poor child, was frantic 
wane ey and filled the air with lamentations for his father and mother. 
Mi padre! Mi madre !—was his incessant cry. When. we beheld: this 
pitiable sight, and pictured to pipreives the fate:of the two, women, carried* 
off by savages so bruta! and so loathsome, all:compuncetion for the scalped- 
alive Indian ceased ; and we rejied th pel Carson and Godey had beenable 
to give so usefula lesson to these’ American Arabs, who lie in wait to 
murder and plunder the innocent fapaliatee 
We were all too. smucteadianted BY: -the. sad. feelings which the. placeiin- 
spiced etomen ay unnecesary moment. The night we.were obliged to 
ere. I i Bie ai we left it, having first written a brief 
‘of what a happened, om put it in the cleft of.a pole plantedat the 
spring, , that the approaching caravan might learn the fate of their friends. 
In commemoration. of the event, we.called the:place vom Pee oes 
Hernandersa.a SADENE. By observation, i its latitude was. 35° 5 
f° continued our journey, over a district esi to that of 
le From ne sandy basin, in which was the spring, we entered 
another | of.the same. character, surrounded every where by moun= 
tains. cn us. Receabes a high range, rising still higher to the left, and 
illow, and aca 
terminating in. eanoryn mountain 
. After a.day’s march of 24 miles, we, reached. at eve . the bed of a 
r from ‘ahaha water digei disappeared; a. little on re remained in 
bere , Which we i by.d ing; and about a bove, th 
et entirel papkes max : water 
for the ihe animal The stream came out of the mountains ont n the > left, very 
GAdQ»s 
‘as scarce. as water. i r yellow 
Beemer Santa “ee, occurred abundantly at. intervals. for the 
last ae ys, and erdggon uminflatum was among the characteristic plants, 
: L-The air is rough, and.overcoats pleasant. .Thesky is blue, and 
thed he day ssaseriy Our road was over a plain, towards the foot of the mounr 
coe >, Down bloom 
m a Ceivor 
ot he, country ;. and. cacti. were very abundant, and in 
2S. = A which wonderfully ornaments this poor country. We 
mpéd at a spring in the pase, which had-boenshe site of an old vill 
excellent 
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