Wild life in the far west : personal adventures of a border mountain man . e reason that General Rojas did not getto us sooner was because he had mistaken our routeand gone over thirty miles out of his way ; all planned,no doubt, by his two Indian guides, who pretended tobe friendly. They escaped, or they would have beenshot, as our guide was. We all returned to Tepic;and in consultation with our officers there, finallyagreed to give up the pursuit after Lozado and histribe, and return to Mazatlan, where we arrived safelyand without meeting any enemy. After remaining at Mazatlan about a month,
Wild life in the far west : personal adventures of a border mountain man . e reason that General Rojas did not getto us sooner was because he had mistaken our routeand gone over thirty miles out of his way ; all planned,no doubt, by his two Indian guides, who pretended tobe friendly. They escaped, or they would have beenshot, as our guide was. We all returned to Tepic;and in consultation with our officers there, finallyagreed to give up the pursuit after Lozado and histribe, and return to Mazatlan, where we arrived safelyand without meeting any enemy. After remaining at Mazatlan about a month, GeneralMorales received a dispatch from General Zaragosa,ordering him to send a force of two thousand men tojoin him at Sayula, and from tlic^re proceed to the siegeof Guadalaxara. General Miramon had collected alarge force of church troops at this place, and, by abold stroke. General Zaragosa intended to capturethat city, with all its ten thousand troops, if force was speedily organized, under General Lan-berg, and proceeded to San Bias, part by water and. CAPTURE OF SEDITIOUS PRIESTS. 209 part by land, meeting again at Tepic, as on a formeroccasion. We made a forced march, onr artillery andcavalry standing it VL^vy well, but the infantry sulft-redconsiderably on the route. Part of the infantry weremounted ; and whenever we could make a raid on aranclie belonging to a churchman, and get mules orhorses, we did so. In this long march we suffered forwant of provisions. One night, at a little desertedvillage, whose affrighted inhabitants had fled, ourtroops fared very comfortably, and my supper was en-riched by the addition of a fat turkey, which I espiedon a fence, and brought into camp. My first-sergeantin the artillery was lucky enough to capture a well-filled beehive, and our mess were in clover that destroyed no property in that village, but consid-ered ourselves entitled to all the provisions and animalswe found abandoned. We captured four priests then
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