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consciousness. Then she found herself covered with blood, 
and pierced with arrows, three through her arms and one 
through her leg. She broke off the heads and drew them 
out, and then tried to crawl up the bank and regain the 
footpath. She had no water, no food, no one to help her 
and yet thirty miles separated her from the mine, which wai 
the nearest point where she could quench her burning thirst, 
It is almost impossible to conceive any position so terribl 
The idea of a young girl, perfectly naked, wounded im th 
manner, and dying of thirst and exhaustion, finding her wa 
back over thirty miles of stony path, across mountains, to | 
place of safety, is almost too incredible for a sensation novel 
and yet this girl did manage to creep, by slow stages, ove 
the entire distance, and, in six days of inexpressible suffering 
appeared in a state of high delirium before her father. & 
told me this in the presence of her sisters; and they we 
honest, homely people, who would not, I am confident, § 
what was untrue. I saw the scars of three roe : 
her arms, and can well believe her when she says that @ 
her body there are several other scars to bear witness whil 
she lives of that terrible journey. Some time afterwards, che 
Mexican child was retaken and given back to her ae 4 
Van Alstine and I bade our fair hostesses adieu, thanke 
them for their hospitality and their chat, and wished that whe 
might never see any more of their enemies, the red-skins. — A 
we rode along, we talked for many a mile about these fi 
daughters, all alone in the Sopori Ranche. They had plen 
fire-arms, and knew well how to use them behind their 
barricades. But what a life of anxiety and watching is the eis 
and what joy it must be to them when their father and brot | 
come home safe from the mountains ! q 
Eleven miles more brought us to the Colorado or Hei 
