Notes of a Military Reconnaissance: From Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila RiversWendell and Van Benthuysen, printers, 1848 - 614 páginas |
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5-Continued abundant alpha aquila altitudes of Polaris animals Apaches APPENDIX Arkansas Arkansas river August banks basalt Bent's Bent's Fort buffalo California camp cañon Captain cedar Chihuahua Chronometer fast Clear and calm Colonel corn cotton wood Council grove covered creek crossing December DETERMINATION OF LATITUDE distance dragoons east star encamped fire flowers Fort Leavenworth Gila grass ground grove hills horses houses inches Indians Kaw river Leavenworth leaves Lieutenant longitude Lyræ Mean Mexicans Mexico min.sec morning mountains mules Navajoes night November o'clock observations October p. m. Double altitudes party passed Pawnee fork Pimos plain plant prairie Pueblo rain Raton Raton pass reached Rio del Norte river road rock route San Diego sand Santa Fé seen September side snow Sonora soon species specimens stream Thermometer to-day town trees valley village wagons west star willow wind
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Página 489 - Rarity was the Mexican Bull; a wonderful composition of divers Animals. It has crooked Shoulders, with a Bunch on its Back like a Camel ; its Flanks dry, its Tail large, and its Neck cover'd with Hair like a Lion. It is cloven footed, its Head armed like that of a Bull, which it resembles in Fierceness, with no less strength and Agility.
Página 32 - During the repast, and as the sun was setting, the United States flag was hoisted over the palace, and a salute of thirteen guns fired from the artillery planted on the eminence overlooking the town.
Página 109 - The enemy's pickets and a portion of his force were seen in front. The sick, by the indefatigable exertions of Dr.
Página 99 - Colorado is 1,500 feet wide, and flows at the rate of a mile and a half per hour. Its greatest depth in the channel, at the ford where we crossed, is four feet. The banks are low, not more than four feet high, and, judging from indications...
Página 30 - ... used by the Mexicans, which resemble, in shape and size, the wedges used by our farmers for splitting rails. The cornices and drops of the architrave in the modern church, are elaborately carved with a knife.
Página 98 - upon, to any extent, for the cultivation of the soil. The earth is destitute of trees, and in great part also of any vegetation whatever. A few feeble streams flow in different directions from the great mountains, which in many places traverse 'this region. These streams are separated, sometimes by plains, and sometimes by mountains, without water and without vegetation, and may be called deserts, so far as they perform any useful part in the sustenance of animal life. * The cultivation of the earth...
Página 467 - ... distance ; the rest of the way is through solid rock. At one place a singular opening or narrow way is formed between a huge, square tower of rock and the perpendicular face of the cliff. Then the road winds round like a spiral stairway ; and the Indians have, in some way, fixed logs of wood in the rock, radiating from a vertical axis, like steps. These afford foothold to man and beast in clambering up. "We were constantly meeting and passing Indians, who had their 'burros
Página 99 - From all that I learn, the country does not differ, materially, in its physical character from New Mexico, except, perhaps, being less denuded of soil and vegetation. The sources of the Salinas, the San Francisco, Azul, San Carlos, and Prierte, tributaries of the Gila, take their rise in it. About their head waters, and occasionally along their courses, are presented sections of land capable of • irrigation.
Página 27 - We consider it, and have dorie so for some time, a -part of the territory of the United States. We come amongst you as friends — not as enemies; as protectors — not as conquerors. We come among you for your benefit — not for your -injury.
Página 82 - The camp was soon filled with men, women, and children, each with a basket of corn, frijoles, or meal, for traffic. 'Many had jars of the molasses expressed from the fruit of the pitahaya.