292 | CASAS GRANDES TO 
July 16th. Westarted with a heavy road, and made 
but slow progress. The wagons got mired several times 
in crossing arroyos, one of them so deeply that it be- 
came necessary to unload it before it could be released ; 
while another, in passing a deep gully, plunged so 
suddenly down, that the tongue was snapped off. 
We reached Tucson at ten o'clock, a.m. As we 
passed the garrison, a body of Mexican soldiers were 
entering, who had just arrived from the south ona 
campaign against the Apaches. Among the officers 
standing at the gate I recognised Captain Barragan, 
who was in command at Santa Cruz when we reached 
that place in October last. Hearing from him that 
General Blanco was within, I left the train and accom- 
panied the Captain to pay my respects to him. 
General Blanco informed me that the depredations 
of the Apaches had lately been more frequent than 
ever. Many animals had been stolen in the immedi- 
ate vicinity of Tucson, Tubac, and Santa Cruz; and 
many Mexicans had lost their lives. The troops had had 
some skirmishes with the Indians, in which Coletto 
Amarillo, one of the chiefs who so frequently visited 
us at the Copper Mines, was killed. The General fur- 
thermore told me that when on his march he fell upon 
a large Indian trail, and noticed among the footprints 
several made by new American shoes, which he readily 
distinguished from the Mexican shoes by their larger 
size and heels. He believed that there were Ameri- 
cans among them, or that they had murdered and 
robbed some party of emigrants. In October, when 
the weather should be cooler, and the rainy season 
past, it was his intention to make a campaign against 
