Outing . leadership and his promise toPesqueira outweighed the allurements ofthe Nicaraugua offer. On the 21 st of January, 1857, the steamerSea Bird, put out from the harbor of SanFrancisco with seventy filibusters on called themselves the American andArizona Mining and Emigration Company,though it was well known for what purposethey went. On the 24th, the steamerreached San Pedro. At El Monte, not farfrom Los Angeles, the party outfitted andaccepted a few fresh recruits. Never a company of adventurers went todeath more blithely than this little of them were young men und
Outing . leadership and his promise toPesqueira outweighed the allurements ofthe Nicaraugua offer. On the 21 st of January, 1857, the steamerSea Bird, put out from the harbor of SanFrancisco with seventy filibusters on called themselves the American andArizona Mining and Emigration Company,though it was well known for what purposethey went. On the 24th, the steamerreached San Pedro. At El Monte, not farfrom Los Angeles, the party outfitted andaccepted a few fresh recruits. Never a company of adventurers went todeath more blithely than this little of them were young men undertwenty-five, and they wooed adventurelike a mistress. They relied on Crabbescontract with Pesqueira and the succorswhich were to be sent them later from SanFrancisco. As the affair eventuated bothof these hopes were destined to provefutile, but it is not at all certain that evenif they had known beforehand that Pes-queira and Crosby would both fail them,they would not still have attempted Intoxicated with the lust of gain the filibusters looted the missionchurches of their golden crosses as they advanced. Fainting by Frank E. Schoonover. A Forgotten Filibuster 369 Pushing into the desert, the ninety menreached Fort Yuma on February 27th. Asmall party under the command of Wood and Major Tozier was heredetailed to go up the Gila River and securereinforcements if possible. On March 4th,Crabbe and the rest of his men left Yuma,marching directly across the Coloradodesert toward Sonoita, Arizona. Theycamped one night at a place still known asFilibusters Camp. They reached Sonoitalate in the evening of March 25th. Herewas located the American trading post ofBelknap and Dunbar, at which Jesus Ainsawas employed. Ainsa endeavored to dis-suade his brother-in-law from carrying outhis mad enterprise, but as Charles D. Pos-ton puts it, both Crabbe and his men were hell-bent on going. The filibusters appear to have beenintoxicated with the lust of gain, for theyare
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