TO THE COCO-MARICOPA VILLAGES. — 199 
-ance of having been recently filled with water. It 
was now dry, except in a few holes which had been ~ 
dug to obtain it. We found the water in these holes 
quite brackish, and unfit to drink; consequently we 
~ were obliged to send our animals bout a mile and a 
E half phecuph the wood to the river, from which we 
also brought water for our own use. So thick was the 
wood, that it was found impracticable to force our — 
wagons through. ‘This was the most beautiful spot we 
bia. encamped in since leaving the little valley of San 
Isabel, in California. We pitched no tents, finding a 
better. and more agreeable protection in the 
and overhanging willows, the leaves of which ext 
to the ground. Beneath these bushes we were wel 
sheltered from the sun, and passed the most comfort- 
able day we had yet experienced along the parched 
regions of the Gila. Distance travelled, eighteen 
miles. co 
We opened a cache* in the bank here, in which 
Dr. Webb had buried a quantity of things, when the 
party under his chargé passed down the Gila in Decem- | 
ber last. Every thing was found safe and in good 
‘condition. The wolves had smelled something below” ' 
the surface, although there were no provisions ; 
and had dug up and exposed a corner of the ' 
which the articles were enveloped. Had eit. 
lers or Indians been here Eines they ¥ we 
* Cache. (French). A = or hole i in n the : 
; lers bury their provisions or 
