INDEX. 
ComancueE Spring, Texas, i. 53. 
Comancue Indians, ii. 885. 
their depredations, ii. 
479, 480, 497, 520 
—— their range and numbers, ii. 386, 
424. 
—— their attack on the town of Sau- 
cillo, ii. 447. 
—— their robbery of 120 mules from 
a train, i. 448. 
—— in the Bolson de Mapimi ii. 455. 
—— defeat the Mexicans at Cerro 
Gordo, li. 468. 
Cota Azut, the Pimo chief, 11. 254. 
Cororabo River of Texas, il. 536. 
Cotorabdo River, California, arrival 
at, 1. 150. 
416, 4117, 
—— bottom lands on, i. 149, 151, 
159-161. 
———hills of moving sand near, ii. 
149, 150. 
its junction with the Gila, ii. 
158. 
its character, ii. 157, 160, 178, 
174, 168, 170, 172, 572. 
nature of its bend, which gives 
the U. S. both its banks at 
Fort Yuma, il. 160. 
traces of old Spanish missions on, 
il. 161. 
difficulties in navigating, 11, 162, 
LGS HAO N Li eel 2: 
survey of, recommended, ii. 162. 
—— Lt. Strain’s plan for such survey, 
1638-165. 
Col. Graham defeats the plan, ii. 
165, : 
—— Alarcon’s voyage up in 1540, 11. 
168, 169, i81. 
—— Consag’s attempt to ascend it in 
1746, i, 170. 
—— Hardy’s attempt in 1828, ii. 170. 
Turnbull’s voyage up in 1852, 11. 
172. 
Major Heintzelman’s reconnais- 
sance of, 11. 168. 
height of and greatest rise, ii. 
eV iige 
particulars of the ferry estab- 
lished on, by Dr. Langdon, 1. 
174. 
Comeya, another name for the Diege- 
nos, i. 179. 
Comeya Indians of California, 1i. 7. 
Concercion, Texas, Mission of, 1. 44. 
Concepcion Point, California, i. 79. 
611 
Concno River, Texas, i. 85, 86. 
do. South Fork, i. 79. 
Concnos River, Chihuahua, ii. 450, 
567. 
—— its bottom lands, ii. 451. 
Conpr, Gen’! Pedro, see Garcia Conde. 
Cooxr’s Serine, New Mexico, i. 219, 
Cooxg, Colonel St. George, his Califor- 
nia road, i. 244 + il. 339. 
——his opening of Guadalupe Pass, 
rh DL Ib, BB 
traces of his camps, ii. 197, 330. 
—— opens the defile at San Felipe, 
California, ii. 123. 
Cooxr’s WELL, California desert,ii. 148. 
Coon’s, Mr, Wagons, encampment of, 
near the Guadalupe Mountain, 
Texas, 1. 121. 
rancho, El Paso, i. 192. 
party, losses of animals by, i. 
192. : 
meeting with in Sonora with 
large herd of sheep, ii. 293. 
Mines near the Gila. Dr. 
Webb’s report on,-i. 178. 
—— history and description of, i. 228. 
CorvEro, Goy. of Chihuahua, ii. 428, 
—— his certificate relating .to the 
boundary, ii. 457. 
Corn, its price at El Paso, i. 150. 
its price at Arispe, i. 284, 
Cornubos pEL ALamo, Texas, i. 121, 
128. 
Coronapo’s Islands, description of, ii. 
86-88. 
Corpus Curisti, Texas, arrival at, ii. 
526. ‘ 
—— its bay and vicinity, it. 528. 
Corral, mode of forming one, i, 49. 
Corretitos, Chihuahua, visit to, ii. 
842, 344, 
—— furnaces for smelting silver ore 
at, ii. 343. 
Cosnina Indians of New Mexico, ii. 
178. 
Cotron, its cultivation in Sonora, i. 
441, 469. 
its cultivation in Texas, i. 28. 
—— its cultivation in Parras, ii. 486. 
seen growing on the banks of the 
Colorado, Cal., in 1542, ii. 182. 
its cultivation by the Indians on 
the Gila, 11. 224, 598. 
on the Rio Nasas, ii. 472. 
at Alamo de Parras, ii. 478. 
CorroN LANDS in California, ii. 106. 
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