John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Capitolo 38

dark region that they had crossed as soon as.

In their March of eight days through this sterile and region of gameless,
their provisions were become rather exhausted. They happened to come through
of the Indians from who they purchased an old mare. The animal was quickly
you cut on, he/she cooked and eaten with the great taste. They also got, from the
same Indians, a small quantity of corn and beans. In the rich lawns of
the Colorado our adventurers again the found abundance. They spent some
delicious days here, banqueting while trapping and chasing. The animals founded,
for them, a heaven in the luxuriant pastures of wild oats.

Again the trip to the west was taken back. The account we have of them
movements are so lean that is impossible to follow with accuracy the
their addresses they crossed. They followed for of the leagues a river, when
suddenly its waters disappeared. They apparently sank under of the surface
of the it sand-blasts mobile. There were still indications to which you/they trained them
follows the course of the river, up to that finally him colors of rose again above of the
you appear on the surface, and in the open air flows above to the ocean.

For a long time they reached the Catholic and famous Mission of Gabriel of St.,
nearby the Pacific coast. The Mission was then in a flourishing condition.
The statistics, publish in 1829 they point out a degree of the prosperity that
it almost seems unbelievable. More than thousand Indians they were tied up the
Mission, and you/he/she was working in his/her widely-spread out fields, his minding
herds and cultivating the ground. The poor Indians that were often half
dead of hunger on the plans, found here light job the refuge and abundant
food. The statistics to which we report there, are that the Mission had seventy
thousand head of bovine livestock, four thousand two hundred horses, four hundred
mules and two hundred and fifty sheep.

These Missions, very of what established was in a line, among around
fifty miles the Pacific coast, belonged to the Spanish government and