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Show de w sc JH m h< w st te th w c.1 i Cl OI A S] C( Jc bl tc a tc tl v t t f f ' s f ' 1 I Ex. Doc. No. 41. 7t looking, an!l infinitely better onditi on ed,, than those we.mct Y<'St e r d a y , r c s c m b I i n ~ s t r o n g 1 y t b A p a<: h e s <~ f t h c <' o py e r m 111 c · , a u d like them dc('ked in the plundered garb o( th' M •xtcans. Th · <lny passed, but no 1ndians cnm1·; trea cherous thcmsl'lYes, they xpc ··t tn•acher~ in oth~' rs. At everla-.;ti_ng w<~r willt the .r ~·~t of 111 an k i 11 d tlr c· y kt 11 at s L g h t a II w h o fa II 111 t he L r p o w 'r. 1 h e c o n d u c t o f 't h · .!Vf 'x i C' an s t o t h c m i s e q u a 11 y b ad , fu r t It c y d <' <' o y and kill the ApHtches whenevn tlu'y can. The former (;o\' l'l'llOr of Sonora employed a bold aJHl inln•pid lrishman, named Kirkc·r, to hunt the Apar!t •s lle had in his employment whites and ])(·laware ]ndians, and was allowed, b •s id es a p<'r diem, ~100 p ·r scalp, an<L $25 for a pris0n<'r. A story is also told of one .J ohuson, an Englishman, an Apache tradn, who, allun•d by tire rrward, induC'ccl a n u m b e r of t h <' s e p eo p I c l o com e to h i s e am p , a n d p I a c t' d a. b a r r cl of flour for them lo help themselves; \Yhen the crowd wa.· thi ckest of men, women, anrl child ren, be ftred a six pounder among·t them front a conccaltd plare and killed great numbers. 13 circum-meridian altituc1cs of Leta aquarii, arul 10 a1titud<'S o[ polnris give the latitude of thi camp 3;3o 1<1' 29". Th' longitude by 12lunar d istances~:. a11(l 'vV. is lJO, :W' 2·1". November 1.-No alternative seemed to offn but to pur::;ne Carson's old trail sixty miles over a rough country , ·wiliJout wat(·r, an d two , i f n o t l h r e d a y ::-.' j o u r n e y . l n d <' r l h i s , i n t h c i r s It a lt c r t' < l condition, our mul es must sink. 'vVc follow<'d the Otla rivt'r six or sev ·n mile ·, when it became necessary lo lt"ave it, l10w long was un ce rtain. Giving our animals a bite of th • Juxuriou<.; grama on the river hanks, we ftllecl every v sse! capabl ·of holding ·v;at ·r, and com m c n c c d t h <..' j or n ad a . The as c c n t was v <' r y rapid : the hi I J s s t · e p, and t be foot i u g insecure. After t r a v c II in g ii v or six m i I c s, ascending all the way, we found trails from various direction· converging in front of us, evidently leading to a vi! lag' or a spring-; it proved to be the last. The spring con. ist(•do f'aft•wdeepholcs, flllcd with deli cious water, overgrown with cotton wood; a11d, although the ~rass wa ·not good, we determined to halt f'or the night, a. the howitzers w ·re not yet up, and it was doubtful wh n we should m e c t w it ·h water a gain . I t o o k a d van La ,,. ( · o r t h e car 1 y h a It to asc en. d , w i t h t 11 e b a rome t • r, a v c r y high p c.: ~t k o v e r lt an gin g t h c camp , ~lu ch I took to be th lofliesl in the Piiwn Lano range on the north s1d ·of the Gila . . Its approximate hc•ight was only 5,721 f•ct above the s a. The VIe~ was very xlc.•n ive; rugged mountain· bounded the rntire honzon. Y cry far to the northeast was a chain of mountains covered with. snow, but I could not dceidc whether it was the range on the east stde of the Del Norte or the Sierras Mimbres. Ncar the top of this peak the mezcal grew in abundance, and with the stalk of one 25 feet long we erected a flag -staff. Here too we found ~~&e masses of the conglomerate bd'orc descr ibed, apparently as ll 1t had been arrc led in rollwg from an imp 'll<ling hci~bt, but th ':e wa 1_10 point high r than this for many miles, and the intervening ravtnC' ·were deep. Lower dowi'I we found a larg' mass of many thousand tons of the frucr conglomerate, the sl1ape of a trun- |