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distance and from thence to Coralitas (Correlitos) or Hannis
(Janos or Yanos), on the borders of Sonora and then take the
Chihuahua road to California, which comes into Cooke's on the
Gila somewhere about the Puma Villages.60 There is a party
making up under Capt. Murchison to go ahead and explore the
Gila ahead of the wagons. If they take the upper route, they
propose starting in a few days. It is probable that none of us
will leave this river for three or four weeks, or untill our animals
are fully recruited.
Your affectionate brother,
Lewis B Harris.
Lewis B. Harris to a Brother61
Camp Salvation, Oasis in the Desert;
Cal. Oct. 21st., 1849.
Dear Brother:
I am almost ashamed to give any date to this, for by this time
I fully expected to be at the diggings;62' this is the first oppor-
tunity I have had since leaving Paso del Norte of communicating
with the white settlements, and now only by accident; there being
some pack-mule-men out of provisions, who are compelled to go
direct from here to San Diego to get supplies, and as we are very
busy providing provender to carry us through the ballance of the
desert, I shall only have time before they leave, to give you a very
slight idea of how we are getting along.
We have taken it very moderately, as you can judge, partly to
save our animals, and partly on account of falling in with a slow
train, in which I have remained on account of the ladies, company
for my wife. There has been no one on the road however, who
has got along better, if as well as we. We have every animal with
which we started from home, and all in good condition.
We have never met with the least accident, and have had plenty
all the way, and now have sufficient to carry us through. At
Paso we got a plenty of wheat and flour, and between the copper
mines and Santa Cruz we killed as many wild cattle as we could
haul after jerking the beef. On the road we have been able to
6oSee note 19.
"1Telegraph, January 3, 1850.
"2See Introduction, THE QUARTERLY, XXIX, 36.220
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