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Show Ex. Doc. No. 41.. 121 on our flank was so annoying t hal w' hallrcl lo ~i len ce tlH•m. In about fd'tecn minul s lhi · ""a · done, arulllH' orcl<•r "forward' <1gain given whrn th en •my came down on our left /l ank in a scatt('J'ing sort ~f charge, an<l notwithstanding tht' cfl'orts of our ofTirers to make thcit' men holcl their fin·, they, as is usually the case und r similar ·i rcu mslanccs, d ·liver •d it whilst th<· Californians W<'l'<' yet about a hundretl yard~ di stant. This fin· kn odcc<l mt~ny c It ol' their s:-tddl es, and che ·k •d tlH'm. A r ou nd ot' grape was then fir~.· d upon them, and th y, callcrcd. A <'harg' was mad' imullancou:--ly with thi. on our rear, with about llH' same succ·ess. W · all eon. rdercd this as the beginning of the fight, but it wn. th' end or il. T he Californian , th • most ·xp~rt hor.-emcn in tb world, stripprcl th dead h or c on t h ' ft e I d , w i t h o ut d is rn o u n t i n g, and carr i t> d o fl' most of th ir . acldl >s, hricllcs, and all their dcaJ and wounded on horseback to th hi lls lo lh ' rig ht. It wa now about three o'clocl, and the town, known to contain great quantities of wine an<l aguardiente,' a. four mil'S distant. From previous cxp ri<'n ·c of the dimculty of controll ing m n wh •n entering low us, il was determin ed to cross the river 'an Fernando, hall there for lh' night, and entrr the town in the morning with the whole day b ·fore us. The distance to-day, 6.2 miles. After we had pitched our camp, the en ·my came down fr otn lh<• hill., and 400 hors<·men, with the four pieceH of art illery, drew off towards the town, in ord('l' and regularity,\\ hi lst about 'ixty made a movem nt down th<' river, on our rear and left Jlank. 'fh is lc•d us to suppo e they w ·r not yet vhipp d, as we thought, and that w should have a night attack. January 10.-Jusl as '\\ c hall rais<' <l our ·amp, a flag of trurr, born c by ..lV[ r. c I i · a Cas l i I i an , M r. \N or I< man an E n g l i s h lll a n , a tH t Alvarado the owner of lh · ran cheria. .al the}\ liHos, was brought into camp. They proposed, on behalf of the CalifornianH, to wurrender their dear City of th Angels, pro vi(ted W<' would reHpecl property and perHon~. This wa, agreed to; but not allogclh r tru ·ling to the honest) of G •neral Flores, who had one<' brok •n his pa:ol , we move<l into the town in the same order we houhl have do11e if expecting an attack. It was a wis(' pre ·au lion, for the str et· were full of <1<>. perate and drunken fellows, who brandished their arms and salut<•d ns with every t rm of r 'JHOach. Th • crest, overlool iug the town, in rifle range, wa covcrecl with horsem('n, engagrd in th same hospitable mann r. One of them had on a dragoo n's coat, ·to len from the dead body of on our soldiers after we had buried him at an Pasqual . . Our m n marehe<l steadily on, until ·ros. ing the ravine Jca~ling u~to the public square, when a fight took place among t the Caltforntans on lh hill; one became disarmed, and to avoid dt>ath rolled ?own the hill towards us, his adversary pur. uing and lancing hi.m m the m o t cold-b I ood ed mann ·r. The man tumbling down the lull w.as supposed to be on • of our vaqueros, and the cry of :c res cue hun" was raised. The ·r w of the Cyanc, ncar' t the scene, at once, and without any orders, halted and gave the man that was |