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Show ' . ' ' {23] 52 <licular ann about thirty feet above the stream; the men spran·g in and Lu~ted s-ome d;stanee up and down the bed of the "arroyo," but there was n·o water; we coukl go no i'urther,. and w~re forced to camp here. As the vaJ'lry around seemed destitute of grH~s, we Let our mules run free,. and trie.d to make our supper, but you may be sure it was a very dry one. At last we hea~d the. gr~teful sound of dogs barking, and some of the me~ came 10 and Raul that they had·seen lights not far off, so we sent 1or some water; but thE' men were absent so long that we coulJ not wait for their return. It wa·s now 10 o'clock; we had been travelling since five this morning with~ut food, without one drop of water, Clnd had marched about twen1y tfi"e miles, so that we did not Jack appetites. As there was no wo.orl; we gathered some of the dry branches of the artemisia; and; having made a fire, roasted a fore quarter of mutton, 1 which two of us despatcher] without much difficu1ty, and then sankdown. to rest, with the intention of drinking deep draughts in the morn mg. October 19.-No sooner did lhe first rays of light dawn than we started off for the village; all the water the men had brought, they had drunk througl1 the night; as our mules were still loose we could not wait for them to be caught and sa.ddletl, but start(·d off on foot;and after a walk of a milt', we entered the village of Moquino. Here we were vrry Wt:'ll received by one of the inhabitants who gaye us some delicious milk, and his wife sat down and ·made cigarrito's for us. l;~'f~js town is situated on a rocky hill that on one side is perpen.:. d~~Ula~, and about twenty feet lugh; the pJac~ contains near tbree lAI~~~~1~M ~'~nd fifty inhabitants. · J,n~ hfi'<~ •gt-V'~R orders for the wagons to start early, but they did• tlof.'tJn'C\l1 ~lh~ t()wn until near noon. The mules Pad run off' orne llrstdtr<~e inr1~~atre~· gf water and gra«s; and, in addjtion, some rascally Mex¥can1si'HaH 'tAlen the rotH'S from their neck . . ~,i !N.4' b\lr . .ra~i!litaH~~¥e much jaded hy the toils~me marches ~e had m'\Nt~ hF>the: ~ttst h\~e" tla)s, t:hrough the dePp . ands of the \'~·Ji ep, weacoiYc1udi_..(ll',it \\+6u~i(l ji>!e best to rem~tin htre all day and let them J.~st! :;-.c: ... :•-' :j;,:j) 0'! .drlG'I, ~ · We :hadJ:fmeilm~~-:a~ ~l'i~ ~itle of the Rio Pojuate close to the t?wi_l ,o[ }J 9.q u,i,n_o, an ~!rJ~o~~· ~ iJ~~Sl ,south of the village' of Ci b~ ll eta, : w.h~~ ¥s·, a1~or~u~~_t\f thle, s1\¥l~ rrv.et:. · .~he country around consist!~ of h1J~~1 ~as~~~ \o·} . :in.«.s1.on'~1? :..<))'~Efi.jJ'_e·a}f ·~bl. a bed of vol eani c rol'k. ~~at- ¥·oq~~~? .~e-~~r-a! 11~g~ ·n:~sse~ of ' ~hts. rock jut into the sky, ~n:O.{r?m ~~~~· ·vall ef narr~w11ng· u·p t<~:~We. foot_ of these · peaks thete ~S·"'~ ,b~~tcktsh .. m~~s:. of-'de~n~tys of' dalk 'pu~p1~~. r'~c.k. ~ :rh~-~~o~~'e ,!f·_the, tow~ pre~s~d · a~p~nd ' 9uf ~~~p, bringing eggs1 ~!'At-, _ anti ~·~~e~~~ ~ade : ~f .goa,ts .fl)l'lli. 'J!Hey i ~t>emecl scarcely t& 15e~i!e.~ ~~ wli'~.~ \\:,e ttrld· ~_hem".~f. t_hf ro1lcl: By-Wlh'irb we haJ come; iflii. :S~id ·1n ·~as '~un-- 'C'a, mwo- . d·~a'hol-o."- -t ·bleY. <i~k'~cF liS if we bad :ifot n?tlteed · ~' <Tr,e-s_h' 'frnHfha,t c·ros~~·c!· 1dot.r6~te; ~>This ' recallt<;d to Otll" ~\~lls 1tliat We !ba'f) 'S'-et:•n ~q]ic n ·'a ·fHi i 1, 'and t)\x)r 'h~ ViiO>t( s'\o pped to ~Mltie3 ~{ .. . ~~en ,I we 'to,'n11t·M·m:·';'of1i it'! ~'tt~(yl s~)'d ·'41)\1{' 1 if ~ w as the I tftice· ij,fJa'J "W~r : p'tid9 2of·1"flfty 1-N·a,~jBlLin'di~RS'f-\Vl{tJI ~tfuld not, • ' • 53 [ 231 I according to their accounts, have precetil ed us more than a few hours. We cong-ratulated ourselves that we had not encountered · those Indians. I asked them why the Navajoes did not trouble , them. They replied, that' they were gooJ friends to the Navajoes. October 20.-Again we started, leaving our kind friends at Moquino, intencling to camp at Lagun~. After a short march of three miles, we halted at the town of Pojuate; here we saw several large :flocks of sheep and goats. Continuing down the Rio Pojuate, we passed through fields of corn and pumpkins, over which large flocks of cranes w-ere whooping, so that hill and valley rang with the echoes of their cries. After proceeding nine miles, we got upon a fine road that led off in a southwest dit ection, and six miles farther brought us to the Pueblo of Laguna. We had heard the (llost romantic accounts of the village of Laguna and the lake in its vicinity; we had heard that this lake was full of water, clear as chrystal, that it was surrounded by SII\.all villaD'es, and that the neig?boring c.ountry smiled in th~ pr~fusion of the luxuriant productiOns ofthis regiG>n; that the htll sides were covered with fruitful vines, and the plains loaded with delicious melons: and we were most sadly disappo~nted. · The l?ke consis~ed of a little pool, scare~ worthy o~ not!ce, and the highest cult1vated grounds was at the d1stance of SIX miles. The houses of this "Pueblo " or Ind:an ·villiage, are built of stone and are plastered over wi;h mud~ (the num.ber. of in.habitants is seven hundred,) they are generally two stones m he.Ight, and have lad~ers by which one ascends to the sec?nd floor m orcfer to gain admittance. There is a chapel here wh!ch has the interior painted with curious Indian ornament~, i~ ~h11:h they hav~ used the pure r~d, blue, and yellow. The town is situate~ on a limestone bluff, that is about thirty feet in height· the country around consists of high masses; a valley runs off towarrl~ the nort? to a distance of thirty miles, in this valley the town of Covero 1s situated; pretty good }!lace for grass and water· Co!onel Jackson's command is at this moment encamped there but a~· It "·o u I d rcqu!· re two days to g·o there ·a nd to-" return again ' we concluded to pro<;eed without any eRcort, as we had already p;ssed ov~r the mo~t dangerous country that we would have to exdmine. ri 0 the. r.oetd we saw many wooden crosses, held firmly in an up-ght pos,Itwn by heaps of stones piled around their bases. These S~t:red symbols were not erected by the road side to mark the place ~h graves or bloody d~eds, but to r~mind· the traveller to pray for Tbe soul of .the person by whose friends these symbols were erected. e road Sides, throughout the p·rovince of New Metxico are in ' many places, lined wtth these crosses. Near St. Phillipe, we ~aw ~nl~ Wt.th a pifce of board nailed near tht• top, on which was the Ma;i:',~g inscription: '~ Passer-b'y, pray for tlie soul of Dona. ~ . ,I n the even1' ng we were gra h' fi e..,] w1· t h a· Y·I S·t t f rom some Ame- ~:~ns, amongst whom were several old friends They came from. T~v~ro,>' an.cl w~re on their way to Santa Fe.' . O· ~~ I killed a beautiful snow-'white goose, (" anser hyper-. |