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Yount, also, refers to the party at first as a company of sixteen,
and the Sketch of his life speaks of it later as consisting of thirty-
two. The Yount Sketch speaks of Yount's furs being confiscated
upon his return to New Mexico. Gregg informs us that that was
what happened to the furs collected by Young and his men. Both
accounts agree that the furs had been deposited at a neighboring
village in order to avoid being apprehended by the Mexican au-
thorities. Evidently the various accounts relate to the same expe-
ditions.
The foregoing details are presented at length in order the
more easily to compare them with the narrative of James Ohio
Pattie, who, we shall see, evidently fell in with Young's party
of "about thirty men" while on the Gila.
James Ohio Pattie's narrative of his expedition down the Gila
and up the Colorado Rivers.-According to Pattie's narrative, he
left the copper mines in southwestern New Mexico with a com-
pany of French trappers bound for the Gila. They traveled down
the river beyond the point reached by the Pattie trapping party
of 1824-5; and finally arrived at an Indian village situated on
the south bank of the river, where almost all the inhabitants spoke
Spanish, "for," to quote Pattie, "it is situated only three days
journey from a Spanish fort in the province of Sonora. The
Indians seemed disposed to be friendly to us. They are to a
considerable degree cultivators, raising wheat, corn and cotton
which they manufacture into cloths." The trappers had evidently
reached the Pima villages near the mouth of the Santa Cruz wash.
Three days beyond the village they arrived at the "Papawar"
village, the inhabitants of which Pattie says, "came running to
meet us, with their faces painted, and their bows and arrows in
their hands. We were alarmed at these hostile appearances, and
halted. We told them that we were friends, at which they threw
down their arms, laughing the while, and showing by their coun-
tenances that they were aware that we were frightened." Upon
entering the village the Frenchmen separated among the Indians,
and in the evening allowed their arms to be taken from them and
stacked together around a tree while they, themselves, retired
among the Indians to sleep. Against this procedure Pattie re-
monstrated and persuading one Frenchman, whom he says he had250
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