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Show 2Jo 30tb !11tlrrb, M onday.-March ll before sevQn o'clock, the front arrived at wat<' r, at eleven o'clock; the 1nu ks at twelve. The spring n the side of the mountain to the cast of the road, a beautiful situation, I here s.tw th ' Jirst ash timber, 1 observed in the country. This water is 52 miles from the \"1\Tann ~ prings. Yesterday and loday, saw Cabri<', marched fifteen miles further and encamped, wit1wut wood or wat r; passed two other small springs to th' 'ast of the road. 31st Jv1arcb, 'luesday.-Marched at an e:A.cellent spring at ten o'clock. carl y and arrived The roads fron\ Senora, ,., 'anos and Buena ventura, &c. joins about 4·00 yards, bdore you arrive at the spring. Arrived at the vill<1ge of at night, a large and clet;ant house, for the country; here were various labors carried on by crimiwtls in irons. We here met with a Catalonian, who was but a ~hort time from Spain, and whose dialect w:1s such that he could scarcely be understood by Malgares, and whose man· ners were much more like tho~e of a citizen of our western frontiers, than of a subject of a d 'spotic prince. 1st April, Wcdnr.rd,,y.-1 n the mornin~ Malgarcs dis· patched a courier, withal 'ttcr to the commandant gener~l Salcedo to inforn1 him of our approach and also one to his father in law. 2d April, Tbursday.-When we arr1ved at Chihuahua, we pursued our course through the town to the house of the general. I was much as~onishcd to sec with what an:hiety Malgares anticipated the meeting with his military chief; after having be non the most arduous and enter· prizing expedition, cv r undertaken by any of his majcst(s ofl1cers from these provinces and having executed it \~Jth equal spirit and judgment, yet was he fearful of his mcctmg him, with an eye of displeasure; and appeared to be much TllROUGll TilE 1NTEfiJOH l)ROVINCES, &c. 237 more agitated than ourselves, although we may be 5 upposcd to have also had our sensations; as on the will of this man depcnd('J our futur ' destiny, at least until our country could inkrfcre in our behalf. On our arrival at t~c gencrttl's, we were halted in the hall of the guard, unul word was sent to tlJc general of our arrival, when Malgarcs was first i11troduccd, who remained so1ne ti1nc during which a Frenchman came up and endeavor ed to 'enter into conversation with us, but was soon frowned into silence as we conceived he was only some authorisl'd spy. Malgares at last came out and ask ed rne to wall in. 1 found the general sitting at his desk; he was a middle sized man, apparently about fifty-five years of agt,, with a stern countenance, but he received n1e graciously and beckoned to a scat: he then observed " you have given us and yourself "a great deal of trouble." Captain Pike. " On my part entirely unsought and " h f ,c on t at o the Spanish government voluntary." General. " vVhere arc your papers ?" CaptainPil:e. "Under charge of 1icutenantMa1garcs,'' .who w~s then ordered to have n1y srnall trunk brought m • wh h b · d 1· • ' IC emg one, a Icutenant \Valker came in who l' . f N ' sa native o cw Orleans, his father an Englishman, his mother a Fren I d k c 1 woman, an spo e both those languages equally well, also the Spanish. lle wa a lieutenant of dragoons in the Spanish service, and 1naster of the military school at Ch1'h h rl"l · ua ua. 11s same young gcntleu1an was employed by lVIr. Andrew Ellicott, as a deputy surveyor ?n the Florida line between the United States and Spain 11~ the yea.rs ' 97 and '98. G eneral S:1lccdo then desired lnn to assist m . t k' · . e 111 a mg out my papers, and requested me to explam the nature of ach, and urh as he conceived was relevant to th d · · h 'd e expc 1t10n, e caused to be laid on one SI e, and those which were not of a public nature on th |