| OCR Text |
Show ~48 JOURNAL OF A\ OYAGE 28th April, Tuesday.-In the morning Malgarrs waited on us, and informed us he- was to :1.rc·ornpany us some distance on the route. After bidding adieu to all our friends, marched at a quarter past three o'clock, and encamped at nine o'clock at night at a spring-stonypassed near Chihuahua a small ridge of Inountains, and there encamped in a hollow. This day as we were riding along, Mal gar 'S rode up to me and informed me that the g 'neral haL given order that I should not be permitted to make any astronomical observations. To this I replied, that he well knew I never had attempted n1aking any since I was conducted into the Spanish don1inions. 29th April, Wednesday.-Arrivcd at a sctt lemcnt at eight o'clock-plenty of milk, &c. When ahou1 to make my journal, Malgares changed color, and in Formed me it was his orders I should not take notes, but add<'d, you h,\Ve a good memory, and when you get to Co?,C{ lilla r,n . .._an bring it all up. At first I felt consid~rably indJgnMH, and was on the point of refusing to comply; but th ,nking for a moment of the many politenesses I had receivcJ from his hands, induced me merely to bow assent with a smile, and we proceeded on our route, but had nor prort:cded far before I made a pretext to halt-cst:1blit>hcd ;uy ony as a vedet, and sat down peaceably under a bu~h anJ made my notes, &c. This course I pursued <"''Ycr aher, not without some very considerable degree of trouble '"n s?pa· rate myself from the party. Arrived at the fort of St. Paul at eleven o clock, situated on a small river of the same name, the course of which is north-east by south-west. At thC' tim we were there the river was not wider than a mill strealll, t1ut soJOC· times it is three hundred yards wide aud impassable. Distance 30 mil 'S. THROUGH THE INTERIOR PRO\.INCES, &c. ~ ·1~7 30th .April, Tbursday.-1\Iarchcd at six o'clock, and at eleven arrived at the river Conchos 24 mile -beautiful gre~n trees on its banks. I was taken very sick at half past ten o'clock. Arrived at night at a small station on the r! ver Conchas, garrisoned by a sergeant and ten men from the fort Conchas, fifteen leagues up said river. Di tance 43 miles. 1Jt May, Frida,v.-Marched up the Conchos to its confluence with the river Florada, 15 leagues fi·01n where we left the former ri·,cr, and took up the latter, which bears from the Conchas S. 80° and 50° It.. On its banks, ar~! some very flourishing settlements, and they arc well timbered. A poor miserable Yillage at the confluence ..... Came ten ~iles up the Florada to dinner, and at night stopt at a pnvate house. This property or plantation was ~alued fonnerly at 300,000 dollars, extending on the Horada from the small place we slept at on th 1 . f A il . . e ast o pr ' 30 leagues up s cud nver. Distance 4r. m"l F' d' ;;) 1 es. m mg that a new species of discipline had taken place, and that the suc;picions of my friend Mal 1 h gares were nuc more acute than ever, I concciv<.:d it nccessa to take some steps to secure the notes I had taken ryh. 1 wer I d · . , w 1c 1 e can estmcly acqUired. In the ni n-ht I aro.._ (l ··n l . f. makin m . . o :)-, u <. a tcr g y men char Je all theJr pieces well I t k small books and rolled them up in small roll; ~,0 my fine sh · · ' anu tore a h Irt to ~Ieee· , and wrapt it round the papers and I em down m th e l) arr~ 1s c put 01 the guns until we . 1 [i roomforth . . ' J U~ t <: t h e tompoms, \\ bich were th ·n car ll . I e re · d - u Y put m · . mam cr we FCund about our lJ J'.. ' shirts 'fh' 1 s undc r our . . IS occupi~J abo t t">' o hou r!i Gut Without di~co :> • J . . . ' wa.") df<.:cted vef), an without s u~plcion" 2d !vlay, Satur~lt~].-?viarchr d early . and in ~ f a. quarter hours an·iyeJ a· G• .. , -. 'II ' . uur anc rJI'er Fl d ~ a.\._ ut o ; Sl uated on tlJe ora a' where w e h \', e r e. to ex c. angc~ OtJ r friend ~la l- 1 l |
