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Show Ex. Doc. No. 41. 95 ican. I sent Lonclcau and :Martinez with orclcrs to assume the occupation of trappers, and asr ~ rt ain whom, an~l what, the man guar~ de d. The con r , r en c e was . h o rt · o til<' r M c. 1 c <1 n s ad van c e cl , an d l sent iR man for man. It waR nol Castro, as we expcclrd, bul a party of M xiC'ans with 50? hor:c from California, on · their way to onora for the brncfit of Ca ·tro. I took the four p rin cipal men to tb' gencra.l, nncl left a guard lo watch the camp ancl see that no atl<·mpt was made t_o c::::t:apc. The men were xamincd ~·scpara t ly, anll each gaYc a ddf rent a· ·ount o ( the owners hi p an cl d· · s tin at i on of t h c h o r s e s . The chief of the party, a tall, venerable looking man, rrprcsentrtl himself to he a poor employe of' several ri('h men engaged in supnlying the Sonora market with h orse, . \Ve subsequently learnccl that he was no less a per ·onnge than Jose Maria Leguna, a ·oloncl in the l\Texican servi ·c. November 23.-We did not move camp to-day, in orclcr to make a refit from last night capture, <lnd gi ,- our mule an opportunity to pick what little gra s they cou ld before laking the des •rl of 90 Iailes, which li s on the other :ide of the 1oloratlo, and Lctw en us and water. Warner, Stanley, and myself, s~uldl·cl up to vi. it the junC'lion of the Gila and Colorado, which we fo·mcl due north from our camp, ancl about a mile and a half distant. Th ~ <lily was ·tormy, the win cl blowing fier ·e] y from the north. \V moun led a but tc of feldspathic granit , and, looking 2.) 0 cast of north, the rour. e of the Colorado was track cl by clouds of flying sand. The Gila comes into it nearly at right angles, and the point of jun ·tion, strangely cho en, is the bard butte through which, wilh their united forces q1 'Y cut a cafion, and then llow off due magnetic west, in a dire clio n of t h c r c u It ant due to t h c r • l alive s t r · n g t h of t h c nvcrs. The walls of the cafion are verti a l, and about 50 feet high, and 1,000 feet long. Almo t before uteri11g Lh <' caf10n, in dcs r cndi ng th Gila, it ca-grecn \V"tltcrs are l o~t in the ('hromc col ored hue of the Colorado. For a di:lancc of thr c or four rni l(•s below th • jun ·Lion, the river is p •rfc etly straight, ancl about 600 fel'l wid<'; and up, at I •a. t, to this point, th rc is little cloubl thnt thr olorado i alway navigable for steamboats. Abon', th Colorado is full of hifting andbars, but is, no doubt, to a gr at extent susceptib le of navigation . . The Gila, at c •rtain lag-e~, might be navigatrcl up to 1h<• Pimos village, and po ·sibly with small boats at all ~tagrs of water. Near the junction, on th north ·id<' , arc th ' remains of an old Spanish church, built n 'ar the beginning of Lh<' 17th century, by the renowned mis. ionary, Father K.ino. rf' l1 i ~ 111is~ion was cvrnt uall_ y sacked by th Indians, nncl thc· inbabilants all murdered or drtYe~ off. It will probahly ) et be th<' . eat. of a city of wealth and 1mportanc , mo, t of the lllineral and fur regions of a vast extent of country b ing drain cl by the two riv ·rs. The stone butte ~brough whi ·h they hav cut their passage is not more than a mile In length. The Gila once flowed to the south, and the Colorado |