. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 . manypeople are there in Chinapi ? The reply was, Bas-tante Enough. How many are enough? uQuiensabe f Who knows ? In my intercourse and jour-neyings with the lower class of Mexicans, these samereplies have been given to me a hundred times. HadI asked if the place contained five hundred people, theanswer would probably have been, Quisas when they dont know what to answe
. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 . manypeople are there in Chinapi ? The reply was, Bas-tante Enough. How many are enough? uQuiensabe f Who knows ? In my intercourse and jour-neyings with the lower class of Mexicans, these samereplies have been given to me a hundred times. HadI asked if the place contained five hundred people, theanswer would probably have been, Quisas when they dont know what to answer, the universalreply is, Quien sabe The proper expression, iVbse, 280 AGUA PRIETA TO I do not know, is rarely heard, even among intelli-gent people, so habituated have they all become to theother form. One of the sandstone formations which lay directlyby our path, after we had left the canon and werejourneying along the valley, presented so singular anappearance, that I made a hasty sketch of it as I three columnar masses are about fifty feet inheight. A small stream flows directly at their base,where there is a dam to raise the water and direct itinto an acequia which irrigates the valley Columnar Rocks near Arispe. May Slst. Our route continued along the bed ofthe river for about ten miles, the valley widening aswe advanced and becoming more cultivated, when at ARISPE. 281 length we reached Arispe and encamped in the Ala-meda, a beautiful park about a thousand feet in soon as our tents were pitched, Colonel Craig andMr. Cremony took my letters, and went up into thetown to pay their respects to Colonel Garcia the com-manding officer. Several officers soon after called on
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