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took advantage of our delay here, to get drunk, and 
make a serious disturbance in the village. The author- 
ities preferred a complaint against Jesus Lopez, a 
_ Mexican in the employ of the Commission, for ill treat- 
ment of a respectable woman, into whose house he 
unceremoniously entered and then beat her severely. 
They asked if I would punish him, or would allow 
them to doso. I sent word, in reply, that while we 
were in Mexico, we were amenable to its laws—that 
this man knew them, and if he had transgressed them, 
he must suffer the consequences. I afterwards heard 
that he was fined and imprisoned. He was the same 
man who killed the Apache at the Copper Mines, and 
had given me trouble at every settlement where we 
had stopped. I was therefore glad to get rid of him, 
and found no difficulty in filling his place. In fact, had 
I permitted them, half the population would have 
availed “pemaeelinee of the opportunity that presented, 
to get away, it mattered not where to. 
One of Lieut. Whipple’s teamsters also got drunk 
here, drew his pistol on the Padre, and abused several 
others. This man was likewise imprisoned, but was 
liberated at the Lieutenant’s request. To keep the 
men in camp was impossible. They would creep out 
at night; and if sent to the village on an errand, they 
would get drunk and kick up a row. Yet some of 
these very men were the best and most reliable in my 
employ, when on the march, and away from the con- 
taminations of a low Mexican town. 
The shoeing progressed slowly, it taking longer to 
make a nail than an American blacksmith would require 
to shoe an animal. 
