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Conde’s party. After marching about eighteen miles 
the trail turned abruptly to the west, along the base of 
some high detached hills ; these we followed about 
five miles, when we encamped near a water hole. 
.There was here a collection of twenty or thirty wig- 
wams, made of poles, bent over in a circular form and 
well thatched with straw, the whole so completely done 
that they must have been a permanent abode for their 
Indian Wigwam. 
occupants. From all appearances the place had been 
deserted a year or more. In the midst of these wig- 
wams was a circular pit lined with stones, where the 
distilling of mezcal had been carried on, on a large 
scale. Inez said she had never seen such wigwams 
among the Apaches, and that it must have been a vil- 
lage of the Papagos Indians. There were many frag- 
ments of pottery scattered about. Dr. Webb' rode 
ahead with Mr. Salazar this morning, and did not re- 
join us. He doubtless reached General Conde’s 
party. 
^ I afterwards learned that this was a place where Papagos Indians 
resorted annually to collect the Maguay, and distil the liquor ; and 
that about a year before our visit, they were surprised by the Apaches 
and some fifty men, women and children, hilled or taken prisoners. 
