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INCIDENTS AT THE 
employment enough, in making her own garments, 
being quite expert at her needle, and occasionally 
spent an hour in reading the few Spanish books in our 
possession. 
Another incident upon which the 11th article of 
the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo has a direct bearing, 
occurred on the day succeeding that of the event just 
related. 
Ever since my return from Sonora, the Apaches, 
with their chiefs, women, and children, had been daily 
visitors to the Copper Mines, and to our several 
encampments. The most friendly feelings had been 
manifested by them ; and in return, we had not failed 
to let them know that it was for their interest to be at 
peace with us, and, as far as lay in their power, to 
restore to us any mules or cattle that strayed away. 
An additional evidence that there was a sincerity at 
the time in our Apache friends was the freedom with 
which their women and children visited our camps and 
quarters. They had themselves encamped about four 
miles from us, and had with them large herds of 
horses and mules. 
On the day referred to, when a large party of the 
Apaches were in, two Mexican boys suddenly rushed 
into the tent of Mr. Cremony, which was pitched in 
the outskirts of the place, and sought his protection 
from their Indian captors. He at once brought them 
to my quarters ; and, on being questioned, they stated 
that they had been stolen from their homes by the Apa- 
ches. One, named Saverro Aredia, and about thirteen 
years old, had been taken from the town of Bacuachi, 
in the State of Sonora, six months before ; the other. 
