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Show 96 Ex. Doc. No. 41. to the north of this bulle, and the point of junction was below. What freak of nature unitc1l their efl'orts in forcing the bulle, is d i ffi c ult to s n y . J) u r i n g f r c s h c t ~ , it is p r o b a b 1 c t h r r i v r s !' ow ~lis - chart;c their urplu waters through th scold channels. li ranctsco inform. m~ th at the ~olorndo, srven days' travel up from th butte, continu('S pretty much as w' .aw it. There a caf10n i. reached 1mpassabl for horses or canoes. The co u u t r y b c t we c n is s c tll e d h y t h i o y o t a r o , or w o H-c n t r s , co chin - cans, (<\irty.fcl1ow!",) Los .Tont<'ars, or fools, and the (~arroteros, or club Indians. These culLLvat' wclons, beaus, and matzc. On our return we met a .!Vf •xican, Wl'll mounted arHl muJTlcd in his blanket. I asked him where he was going; he sai,l, to hunt horses. As he pas:ed, I ob~crved in caeh of his holst rs the neck of a hot lie, an 1l on his ero up a fre h m <Hi ' sack, with other ev idenC{' S of a prc·paration for a journey. .l\1ttch against his ta ·te, I invited him to follow me to ratnp; sev ral time· he begg ·cl me to let him go for a moment, that hr would CJOil return. His anxiety to be released incr ' a~ed my <ldermination not to eomply with his request. I look him to G neral KC'arny and <'xplained to him the s u s p i c i o us c i r c u m s l a n c · <' s u n d c r w h i c h I h a d t a k e n h i m , an c l t h at his capture would prove of. orne importancP. Tic was immediately searched, an<l in his wallet wa · fouud the mail from California, which was of cour e opened. Among the letters was one atldrcssr<l to Gl•ncral Jose Ca. tro, at Alta, one to Antonio Castro, and otl1crs to men of note' in onora. All susp •ctcd of relating to public affair: were r<•ad, and we a. certained from them that a. count ' r revolution had taken place in California, that the Amerirans were cxpcllell from anta J3arbara, Pncbla de los Angeles, anll other places, and that H.obideaux, the lJrothcr of our int<'rprcln, who had been appointe<l alcalde by the Americans, was a. prisoner in jail. They all spoke exultingly of h a vi n g thrown off " t he de t stab I e A n g 1 o-Y an 1c e e y o k c," and congra. tulatetl thcmsclve that the tri-color once more floated in California. Ca.plain Flores was n:uned as the general and governor, protem., ancl the enthusiasm or the people described as overflowing in the ca11 c of emancipation from the Yankee yoke. One letter gave a minute rt11<l detailed account of a victory Rtated to have been ob- 1ainc<l OYer the Aml'rieans. It statccl that 450 men landc<l at San Pedro, nntl were met, dcf a ted, antl driven back to the fort at San pc.dro. Thi. last was attributed by us ~o M ~ican braggadocio, as 1t lS usual w1th them to rcpr' ·ent thctr d ·fca.Ls as vi ·torics· buL that there was a di:-.;turhanec of a serious kind in the provine~ we coul1l not doubt, from the uniformity of the accounts on that h~ad. We also learned that the horse.~ cap lured were in part for General Castro. Notbing more was wanting to lrgitimize our capture and Captain l\'1 o ore was d i r c t 1 l to r c mount his men. ' The l etle1 s contained pre~ise information, but being dated so far back as the 15th 0 ·tober, left us in great doubt as to the real state of afl'airs in California, and the Mexicans played their parts so dexterously, it was not in our power lo extract the truth from them . .. =- -·" ,· -v |