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ing our steps to the Copper Mines. We had no time 
to lose; and if our supplies were not sent us, I believed 
that we could get flour and such articles as were abso- 
lutely necessary at Santa Cruz, or some other place in 
Sonora, so as to enable us in a few days to proceed to 
the Gila. Mr. Cremony, who doubted the soldier’s 
story, volunteered to go to the San Pedro cathp with a 
single man, if I would permit him. On my accepting 
his services, he selected a trusty and courageous Mexi- 
can named Leonidas, and started at once on his errand. 
Mr. Cremony had scarcely left, when Antonio and 
Carroll, the two men I had sent off early yesterday 
morning for the sheep, returned. They had followed 
the San Pedro to the mouth of the Babocomori, think- 
ing we should move our camp that way; and had 
fallen in with a party of thirty or forty Mexicans, who 
had a camp and a corral near the San Pedro, and were 
engaged in hunting wild cattle. They told the Mexi- 
cans who we were, and of our desire to get to Santa 
; for when they left us, the couriers had not 
arrived from General Condé. They also informed them 
that we had with us a captive girl named Inez Gon- 
zales, whom we were about restoring to her family. 
The Mexican party were all from Santa Cruz; and, 
singularly enough, the father, uncle, and many of the 
friends of Inez, were among them; in fact, there was 
scarcely one of the number to whom she was not known. 
This was the first intimation that they had received . 
that the poor girl. was living, and had been rescued 
from her savage captors. They required no urging, 
but to a man left their —- sere) and. accom: 
.panied Carroll to our camp. — 
