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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 camp 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 
Cruz ; for when they left us, the couriers had not 
arrived from General Conde. 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 hunting ground, and accom- 
panied Carroll to our camp. 
