July 16th. We started with a heavy road, and made but slow progress. The wagons got mired several times in crossing arroyos, one of them so deeply that it became necessary to unload it before it could be released; while another, in passing a deep gully, plunged so suddenly down, that the tongue was snapped off. We reached Tucson at ten o'clock, A. M. As we passed the garrison, a body of Mexican soldiers were entering, who had just arrived from the south on a campaign against the Apaches. Among the officers standing at the gate I recognised Captain Barragan, who was in command at Santa Cruz when we reached that place in October last. Hearing from him that General Blanco was within, I left the train and accompanied the Captain to pay my respects to him.

General Blanco informed me that the depredations of the Apaches had lately been more frequent than ever. Many animals had been stolen in the immediate vicinity of Tucson, Tubac, and Santa Cruz; and many Mexicans had lost their lives. The troops had had some skirmishes with the Indians, in which Coletto Amarillo, one of the chiefs who so frequently visited us at the Copper Mines, was killed. The General furthermore told me that when on his march he fell upon a large Indian trail, and noticed among the footprints several made by new American shoes, which he readily distinguished from the Mexican shoes by their larger size and heels. He believed that there were Americans among them, or that they had murdered and robbed some party of emigrants. In October, when the weather should be cooler, and the rainy season past, it was his intention to make a campaign against