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Show ~36 JOUI1NAL OF A VOYAGE 30th March, Monday.-Marchccl before seven o'clock, the front arrived at water, at levcn o'clock; the mules at twelve. The spring on the side of the mountain to the cast of the road, a beautiful situation, I here saw the first ash timber, I obs 'rvcd in the country. This water is 52 miles from the vVann Springs. Y estcrday and today, saw Cabrie, marched fifteen miles further and encamped, without wood or water; passed two other small spring~ to the cast of the road. 31st March, Tuesday.-Marched early and arrived at an excellent spring at ten o'clock. 'fhe roads from Senora, 'T'anos and Bucnaventura, &c. joins about 4·00 yards, before you arrive at the spring. Arrived at the village of at night, a large and elegant bouse, for the country ; here were various labors carried on by criminals in irons. W c h<'rc 111 t with a Catalonian, who was but <l short time from Spain, and whose dialect was such that he could scarcely be understood by Malgares, and whose manners were much more )ike those of a ci~en of our western frontiers, than of a sttbject of a despotic prince. lst April, Trcdnrsday.-ln th tnorning Malgares dis. patched a courier, with a letter to the commandant general Salcedo to infonn him of our approach and also one to his father in law. 2d AjJri!, Tbursday.-'Vhcn we arriveJ at Chihuahua, we pursued our course through the town to the house of the general. I was much as~onishcd to sec with what anxiety Malgares anticipated the meeting with his military chief; after having been on the most arduous and enterprizing expedition, ever undertaken by any of his majesty's offic rs from these provinces and having executed it with equal ~'pnit aucl judgment, yet was he fearful of his meeting him, with an eye of displeasure; and appeared to be much TUROUGII THE INTERIOR PROVINCES, &c. 2~7 more agitated than ourselves, although we may be supposed to have also had our sensations; as on the will of this man depended our future destiny, at least until our country could interfere in our behalf: On our arrival at the general's, we were halted in the hall of the guard, un. til word was sent to the general of our arrival, when Malgares was first introduced, who remained son1e tim·, during which a Frenchman came up and endeavored to enter into conversation with us, but was soon frowned into silence as we conceiv d he was only some authorised spy. Malgarcs at last came out and asked me to walk in. I found the general sitting at his desk; he was a middl 'sized 1nan, apparl'ntly about fifty-five y 'ars of age, with a stern countenance, but he received n1c graciously and beckoned to a :.>eat: he then observed " you have given us and yourself -~ a great dec1l of troubl~.'? Captain Pike. " On my part entirely unsought, and "' on that of the Spanish governm~nt voluntary." General. "Where arc your papers?" Captain Pike. "Under charge oflieutcnantMalgarcs,"' who was then ordered to have my small trunk brought in ; which being done, a lieutenant Vvalker came in, who is a native of New Orleans, his father an English1nan, his mother a French woman, and spoke both those languages equally well, also the Spanish. lie was a lieutenant of dragoons in the Spanish service, and master of the military school at Chihuahua. This same young gentleman was employed by Mr. Andr 'W Ellicott, as a deputy surveyor on the Florida line between th · United States and Spain, in the years '97 and '~)8. General Salcedo then desired him to assist n1e in taking out n1y papers, and requested me to explain the nature of each, and suc:h as he conceived was rei 'vant to the expedition, he caus~J. to be laid on one side, and those which were not of a plJblic nature on the |