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Show 88 Ex. Doc. No. 41. Indians re~ort to these old hou cs to look for trink ts of . hells, and a pc 'uliar gr 'en stone whi~h I think is nothing more than Yerde antique. . At 12 o'clock after giYinrr our horS('S a Ja.l walenng, we .tarled off in a so uthw ·~ tern 1lircclion to turn the ~outhrrn fooL of the rang of hills pointing to the "a l_t rin>r. _Fiv mile· ~rought us into a grove of the pitahaya, whu.:h had y1eld •cl a pl~nttft_d suppl_y of fruit to th e lndianR. Our way was OYer a phun of granttic sand, a ·ce nding g radually an<l almo:L impcrcl'ptibly. A ftl'r. l eaving the pi_ta haya, tl1 crc wa_~ no growth except th~ Janca Mcx1caua, ancl o<.:cas10na.lly, ul long wlcr\'als, an n.cana or ll1p;a. We travelled till long after dark, and dropped down in a dust hole n(.'ar two large o-rc<' n-bat ked acac·ias. 'I' here was nol a ~prig of grass or a drop of\vatcr, and during lh · who lc night the m ul cs k pt up a pitcou · cry for both. 'l'h re was noth ing but th · o!r'n ive ]arrca, which v n mulrs will not touch, when so hungry as to eat \Vith avidity the dry twigs of • 11 other shrubs and trees. As soon as the moon rose, at 3, a. m., the bugle sou nd •d lo horse, anJ. we wer up and pursuing Olll' way. A httlc after , unris<', ·we had passed the summit and were dcs,;<'n ding towards the Gila. This ~u mm it was form d by a range of granite hills running south ·ast, and standing in pinna ·l(•s. As the un mount 'd, the mirag only s ·en one befor sin e leaving the plains of th Arkansas, now began to distort the distant mountain s, wbit'h verywherc bounded the horizon, into many fanta tic shape . The morning was sharp and bracing, and I was execs ·ivcly hungry, having given my breakfast, ·on i~ting of two biscuit., to my still mor · hungry mule. I wa .· d<'S 'r ibing to Mr. Warner how much more pleasant it would be to b jogging. into Washington aft •r a fox hunt, with the prospect of a hot br akfast, when up rose to our astonished view, on the north side of the GiJa, a p rf ct repr' entation of the capitol 1 with dome, wings, and portico, all eomplct . ll rcmainc<l for full twenty minutes with its proportions and outline pcrfc<.:t, wh •n it dwindl d down into a di:tant butte. We went on bri. kly to the Gila, whose course, marked by the green cotton wood, could be easily trac ·d. It looked much nearer than it rc'ally was. 'vV c rea ched it aft r making forty miles from our camp of yesterday. Our poor brutes were so hungry they would clrink no wat r, but fell to work on the young w i I lows and en ne. After l ellinrr th em bile a few minutes,_ we mov d down the riv •r five miles farner, to a la!·ge and luxt~nanl patch of paspalum grass, haded by the acacta and prosopt . My yes becom~ng sore with dust, I took a large objc ·t for my southern star to-ntght, the planet saturn. 16 circum-m 'ridian altitudes of saturn and 9 altitude. of polaris give the latitude of the camp 35o 59' 22'', and the longilu<le given by the chronom 'ter i~ 112° 50' 01''. November 15.-In the morning the general foun<l the mules so much worsted by the 45 miles journey without food or water, thai |