TO CHIHUAHUA. AI5 
were sent ahead, while the others kept at a distance on 
the right and left, to give us early notice of the ap- 
proach of danger. 
Hight or ten miles brought us to a point opposite 
the Ojo de Callego (Spring of the Mountain Pass), a 
ravine in the mountain on our left, where there was a 
fine spring in a thick grove of cotton-woods. It seemed 
a likely place for Indians to conceal themselves in, 
and, with an enemy at our heels, we had no desire to 
stop there. We therefore filled our water kegs from 
a pool near at hand, without entering the ravine. A 
couple of miles further on, we passed the Ojo de Calle- 
cito, marked by a few cotton-woods on the mountain 
side. Soon after this, we met a body of about twenty 
Mexican soldiers in charge of a lieutenant from Chihua- 
hua, bound for Hl] Paso. They were the men who had 
escorted the merchant train from El Paso, to which I 
have before alluded. From them we learned that Ar- 
mijo’s train of empty wagons, which left that place the 
day before us by way of the Sand-hills, had been 
attacked by the Apaches near the place of our encoun- 
ter with them, and had lost six men and thirty 
mules. : 
Continuing our march until dark, in order to get as 
far as possible from the scene of the morning, we 
encamped on the open plain, making a corral of the 
wagons and tents, and bringing all into as compact a 
space as possible. The animals were either tied up 
close to the wagons or staked within the inclosure, 
and the guard doubled for the night. | 
During the day’s journey, which did not exceed 
eighteen miles, mountains were near us on the left. 
