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mediately got under way, with a strong wind from 
the north-west. Our little craft scudded before it with 
great speed, the log showing thirteen and a half miles 
an hour. This continued during the night, carrying 
us rapidly towards our place of destination. 
Aprtl 24th. Passed Point Loma at eight o’clock, 
and before nine anchored at San Diego. The first 
news I heard was the removal of Mr. Gray as survey- 
or, and the appointment of Major Emory in his place. 
This compelled me to discharge all Mr. Gray’s party, 
and commit the completion of the survey of the Gila 
to Lieutenant Whipple,—an arrangement which re- 
duced the party about to retrace its steps to the [tio 
Grande about two fifths. 
We now set vigorously to work to prepare for our 
return. Our animals, which were so completely used up 
in the journey out, had now recovered their strength, 
with the exception of five or six, which were past 
recovery. I had been unable to purchase any mules 
at Los Angeles or elsewhere to the north, and was 
compelled to depend wholly upon San Diego and its 
vicinity to make up our deficiencies. Our camp 
equipage had been procured in San Francisco; but the 
harness and pack-saddles needed mending and putting 
in order. The wagons also required the labor of the 
blacksmith and carpenter on them. 
A few days after my return, I was waited upon by 
Mr. Antoine Leroux, of New Mexico, the celebrated 
guide who had conducted Colonel Cooke and _ his 
brigade to California in 1846, ’47, and who had a short 
time before arrived with the exploring parity under 
Captain Sitgreaves, which he had conducted by the 
