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tween El Paso and the Copper Mines. The Colonel, 
however, was taking his siesta, and I had not the 
pleasure of seeing him. 
We found here seven Americans, who had left one 
of the emigrating parties a few days previous, in the 
belief that they could reach California by an easier route 
and at less expense than by keeping with the rest. 
Their plan was to go to Ures, Hermosillo, and Guay- 
mas, where they intended to take a vessel for San 
Francisco. On my representing to them all the difh- 
culties that would attend a journey that way, and the 
delay they would be likely to meet with at Guaymas, 
where there might be no vessel leaving for a month, 
they became convinced of their error, and determined 
to leave the same evening, and endeavor to overtake 
their friends. This they could easily do, as they were 
on horseback, while the party they wished to rejoin 
were travelling with ox-teams. But they were in trou- 
ble about their animals. Two of them, having strayed 
away, had been recovered by the Mexicans; who 
refused to deliver them up, on the ground that they 
belonged to the party which had left. I accordingly 
addressed a note to Colonel Medina, stating such facts 
as to satisfy him of the ownership of the animals; 
whereupon he complied with my request, and ordered 
the men who held them to deliver them up forthwith. 
We found an American “‘ herb,” or ‘“‘ Thomsonian ” 
doctor, as they call themselves, here. He had come 
thus far with some of the emigrating parties for Cali- 
fornia; but finding no physician either in Janos or in 
the adjoining town of Correlitos, he had left his party 
and commenced practice on the spot. He said he had 
