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tween El Paso and the Copper Mines. The Colonel, 
however, was taking his siesta, and I had not the 
pleasure of seeing him. 
We found here seven Americans, who had left one 
of the emigrating parties a few days previous, in the 
belief that they could reach California by an easier route 
and at less expense than by keeping with the rest. 
Their plan was to go to Ures, Hermosillo, and Guay- 
mas, where they intended to take a vessel for San 
Francisco. On my representing to them all the diffi- 
culties that would attend a journey that way, and the 
delay they would be likely to meet with at Guaymas, 
where there might be no vessel leaving for a month, 
they became convinced of their error, and determined 
to leave the same evening, and endeavor to overtake 
their friends. This they could easily do, as they were 
on horseback, while the party they wished to rejoin 
Were travelling with ox-teams. But they were in trou- 
ble about their animals. Two of them, having strayed 
the adjoining town of Correlitos, he had left his party 
and commenced practice on the spot. He said he had 
