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Show 53 of the men they were reduced to t'\-.iO-thiras rations, through drinJcing br ack Ls h wat er many we r e at t acked with surruner complaint. I"lany of the feeble ones also suffered severely from cold and rain 'tvhi Le on guard at night, as they preferred to bear their portion of camp duties wha Le they could possibly 00 so, r-e t.he.r than make their condi tion 'mown and have to t.ak e doctor's drugs and, and , abuse. the 24th we found the bones wht ch died in a storm about; buman skull wa s found amonq the On bones. instrumental accomplished the that Colorado had been quarters of California south area Gadsden This River. so h2rd for journey is no after of 't·:l!::mcer those the was the Anza, one of 4 United the t11i the t.hat; they iles dreary they arrived :marches longest wcr e so acrss most wasteland three- great Spaniard, Hhen vas s country vlest strip of same Thi the 3ut the H2S , States river. s Ly Arizona southern in of hundred one p r ev Lous Treaty of 1853.. century earlier. a It an year River decision their .entire they had acco7n:;?lished story. later the the of the Gila along in with difficult part hi about A government to pu r cha se of " G Their march was of mules at in Scm Diego military ir'_'?ressec 'v'i tr; driest part the of North Americ? Des.?i te 1847, ending before this the the company in garrison arrived; the lmlerican Battalion 4Daniel (Chicago, cJnquest of California, New r,'lexico service at TreC1ty of CCI.hueng-a of Janual 13, the that 3attalion strengthened the f act, the at Sen Le a s rryler, t; nevertheless, and southern Je:..)t those Conci se Luis Rey Son Ei :?osts SCreer, 22. cit., pp. 262-3. Signed the presence e son of undoubtedly By performing importcmt 2nd Los Angeles, secure.5 ste>ry of 1881). been Ca Ld f'o r nd :"_Josition there. Diego, A hac the l":ormon Battalion |
