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Show Ex. Doc. No. 41. 499 new fallen snow ancl made an unpleasant glare, 11uch as completely dazzled our eyes'. W c got s~m(• gold_cn w i~g~cl wood peekers and butcher birds, "lanins borealis," bcsufef-. klllwg two large swans, "cygnu Amcricanus," that proved to lH• very fat. We ~ncam_ped at "llosquc del Apache," far to the south of the last mhab1teu town that we shall src north of the .Jornada clef Mucrto. Nove'mber 15.-llcfore the ·un l1ad risen, we were travelling on our journey, and soon rcachrd the cclcbrat(:d valley of Valverde. We now came in sight of the camp of traders. We found assembled here many gentlemen w.hom _we ~acl formerly mrt, and ~ur happy fPclings at greeting them w this ~tld rountry were heartily reciprocated. We camped do ·e along stele of t~lCm. During the day a man (•ntercd camp, purporting to be a messenger from Captain ~~o_k, and stat!ng that_ ~aptain_ <:Jook, finding his men and animals Jadwg, an(l hts provisLon~; gtvwg out, had changc·d l1i de. tination, and would now make a descent upon "El Paso." We were glad to hear this, as it was the people at that place who had mad evcraJ demonstrations of attacking us here. But there was something about the man that excited usptciOn, and the traders refused to furnish him with the m uJ es which he said werr neccss::t.ry to enable him to carry on Captain Cook's letters aRking for rciuforccm<' nts. This man showed sealed letters from Captain C. directed to Captain Burgwin, but, notwithstanding, his whole story wa: an unprincipled fabrication, a we afterwards learned. The traders wiiJ suffer great los~cs on accouut of our difTicuJties. Every pound of freight brought to Chihuahua costs 18 cents; if stopped at Santa Fe, 9 cents; and a11 here • ay that if the duties of $1,000 a wagon loacl have to be paid they will 1o:c everything. November 16.-W e were a]) scant of provision~. The traders l1avc been at this plac for the last forty days, and in that time have consumed their provision. , for they made no arrangements for such a prolonged lay. Common sugar and coffee cannot be had for les than 50 cents the pound, and bceve sell for $20 the head. To employ our time, we went out gunning and killecl a loon, "colymbus glacia1is;" several ducks, 'anas mergan. er ." On our !eturn, ~e saw a fine bald-headed cagl<• that was sitt~ng on a bar m tltc mtclrllc of the Rio del Norte. W hailed it as an emblem of o u r vi c tori o us h an n e r , w h i (' h b r. a r s t h i s b o 1 d b i r <l o n i t. fv 1 d s . }fv~embc1· 17.-This morning I started for Socorro to procure corn f?r our mules. The "grama" is not su£riciently nourishing for anunals I hat have been laboring hard. We had rumors to -day . that the Amenc:an traders in Chihuahua were allowed perfect libbr~ y,. except J~fr . McGoffin and Senor Gonzales; that goods are nngmg 37 ~ t'l·nts per Yara, which is one-third more than many persons hcrt are ready to sc 11 for. V November It>.-During the morning, we walked over the ruins of d alvcrd~. They were it habited in 1820 and 1825, but constant eprcuatto.ns of the Apaches and Navajocs forced the p<•ople to desert thetr village. Nothing now remains but the ruins of ROrn<• adobe walls, over which stillness rrigns. I took a sketch of the |