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inquiries were made about General Wool and his offi- 
cers, who were here during the war, and who seem to 
have made a favorable impression on the people. 
December 2d. Our repairs being completed, we left 
in the afternoon, and proceeded as far as the Hacienda 
abajo or San Lorenzo, a large and elegant establish- 
ment surrounded by lines and clusters of old cotton- 
woods. Vineyards and corn-fields extended far and 
wide over the plain. The owner, Don Manuel de Ibar- 
ra, being absent, we did not visit the interior. The 
whole constitutes a large village. It derives its sup- 
ply of water from springs in the hills Don Manuel 
treated General Wool and the officers of the American 
army with great respect when here; in return for 
which, they sent parties against the Indians who had 
committed depredations on his herds. To this gentle- 
man also belongs the hacienda at El Pozo, where the 
fight took place between Captain Reid and the Lipans, 
before mentioned. 
December 3d. Our route to-day was hilly and tor- 
tuous. We made twenty miles; which brought us to 
a cluster of houses known as the Cienega Grande 
(Great Marsh), belonging to Don Rey de Guerrero. 
Fields of wheat were near, with acequias from springs 
in the mountains. 
December 4th. We travelled to-day eighteen miles 
over a rough and hilly country, the road much cut up 
With ravines and deep with dust. Saw no cultivation 
or arable land until we reached Ceguin, where there 
was a cluster of houses, with fields of maize and wheat ; 
but the people were too lazy to bring us corn-stalks 
for our animals. They said it was too much trouble. 
