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were sent ahead, while the others kept at a distance on 
the right and left, to give us early notice of the ap- 
proach of danger. 
Eight or ten miles brought us to a point opposite 
the Qjo de Callego (Spring of the Mountain Pass), a 
ravine in the mountain on our left, where there was a 
fine spring in a thick grove of cotton-woods. It seemed 
a likely place for Indians to conceal themselves in, 
and, with an enemy at our heels, we had no desire to 
stop there. We therefore filled our water kegs from 
a pool near at hand, without entering the ravine. A - 
couple of miles further on, we passed the Qjo de Calle- 
cito, marked by a few cotton-woods on the mountain 
side. Soon after this, we met a body of about twenty 
Mexican soldiers in charge of a lieutenant from Chihua- 
hua, bound for El Paso. They were the men who had 
escorted the merchant train from El Paso, to which I 
have before alluded. From them we learned that Ar- 
mijo’s train of empty wagons, which left that place the 
day before us by way of the Sand-hills, had been 
attacked by the Apaches near the place of our encoun- 
ter with them, and had lost six men and thirty 
mules, 
Continuing our march until dark, in order to get as 
far as possible from the scene of the morning, we 
“neamped on the open plain, making a corral of the 
Wagons and tents, and bringing all into as compact a 
‘pace as possible. The animals were either tied up 
Close to the wagons or staked within the inclosure, 
and the guard doubled for the night. 
During the day’s journey, which did not exceed 
eighteen miles, mountains were near us on the left. 
