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CHAPTER XIX. 
ILLNESS AND DETENTION AT URES. 
Leave La Magdalena — Taken ill — Diary breaks of — Sufferings on the road 
— ^Reacli Ures — Poor quarters — Dr. Webb and rest of party visit Guay- 
mas — Kindness of Dr. Campbell — Description of Ures, the capital of 
Sonora — Theatricals — The Yaqui Indians — The Opate Indians — Yisit 
from Tanori, an Opate chief— Other Indian tribes of Sonora — ^Exports 
— Narrative of an expedition against the Apaches— My party leave me 
and go to the Gila — Taken to Dr. Campbell’s — Irruption of the Apaches 
—Imbecility of the Mexicans — Tanori and the Opate Indians go in pur- 
suit — Yisit from the Coco-Maricopa Indians of the Gila — ^Good news 
from Tanori — He defeats the Apaches and recovers the stock — -En- 
trance of the victors with the recovered booty into Ures — Death of 
General Garcia Conde — His character — An American held in bondage 
— Arrival of General Flores — Departure for the coast. 
October ^th. We left La Magdalena in the afternoon, 
taking a south-easterly course across a plain covered 
with grass and mezquit bushes. There was no wagon 
road, wheeled vehicles not yet being used. We fol- 
lowed a large and well beaten road, which, though 
traversed by thousands of animals and pedestrians, was 
in many places, where it wound over the hills, no more 
than a narrow path twelve or eighteen inches in width. 
Crowds of people returning to their homes lined the 
road; so that we had no lack of company. We are 
still in a country infested by bands of Apaches, who 
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