396 RIO SAN PEDRO 
I proposed to Colonel Graham to send one of his 
men to the San Pedro camp, advising Lieutenant Whip- 
ple and Mr. Gray~of the information we had received ; 
and in case any of the Mexican Commission had found 
its way back, to apprise them of General Condé’s arri- 
val in Santa Cruz, and direct them to our camp, where 
they would find the couriers and guides.. As the Colo- 
nel required a supply of fresh meat to carry him back 
to the Copper Mines, I sent, at the same time, for eight 
sheep for him and his party. Colonel Graham accord- 
ingly dispatched one of his soldiers to the San Pedro 
camp. , 
A few fish were taken to-day; and fortunately we 
found near the old hacienda, a plentiful supply of purs- 
lain, so that with the little flour we had, we got along 
very well and without much complaint from the men. 
I felt quite ill myself from the exposure to the sun and 
insufficient food: and lay most ofthe day in the shade 
beneath the bushes which grew on the river’s bank. 
The valley of the Babocomori, is here from a quar- 
ter to half a mile in breadth, and covered with a luxu- 
riant growth of grass. The stream, which is about 
twenty feet wide, and in some places two feet deep, 
winds through this valley, with willows, and large cot- 
ton-wood trees growing along its margin. Some of our 
men followed it about seven miles, to its junction with 
the San Pedro. This hacienda, as I afterwards learned, 
was one of the largest cattle establishments in the State 
of Sonora. The cattle roamed along the entire length 
of the valley ; and at the time it was abandoned, there 
were not less than forty thousand head of them, besides 
a large sania of horses and mules, The same cause 
