366 CORRELITOS 
CHAPTER XXXVI. 
CORRELITOS TO EL PASO. 
Leave Correlitos—Visit the Silver Mines of Messrs. Flotte and Zuloaga— 
Attempt of a peon to escape—Rio Santa Maria—Recent fight of 
Americans with the Apaches here—Broad open plains—Continued 
rain—The Salado—The Médanos, or Sand-hills—Painful night’s march 
—Samalayuca—Arrival at El Paso del Norte. 
August 18th. We left Correlitos at 8 o'clock, a.m., 
and took an easterly course over a plain of very gen- 
tle ascent for about fifteen miles towards a conical 
mountain. We then entered a defile, and soon after 
reached the base of the mountain, where we found 
water, and encamped. 
In this conical mountain are the two silver mines 
of Sefor Zuloaga and Mr. Flotte, whose smelting 
works we had visited at Correlitos and Barranca. As 
soon as the camp was arranged, I set off with several 
others to inspect them. The mines are on the oppo- 
site sides of a ravine or indentation, which makes up 
into the mountain, and their entrances are not more than 
a hundred yards apart. On the hill sides, around and 
above the entrances, are the habitations of the work- 
men; most of them are built of the rock excavated 
in mining, and from a little distance have a most 
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