Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua: Connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, During the Years 1850, '51, '52, and '53, Band 1D. Appleton, 1854 |
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adobe Agua Prieta aguardiente American animals Apaches appearance Arispe arrived Astronomer banks Boundary brought camp cañon captives carriage cattle chapporal chief Chihuahua church Colonel Craig Commission Commissioner Concho Concho River Condé cooks Copper Mines corn cotton-wood course Creek Cremony crossed defile desert distance Doña Ana El Paso encamped feet four Fredericksburg Fronteras Gila grass Guadalupe Guaymas Hermosillo hills horses hundred Indianola Indians Initial Point journey labor land leaving Lieutenant Green Lieutenant Whipple Mexican Mexico mezquit miles distant Mimbres morning mountain mules night o'clock party Paso passed Pecos plain portion prairie present procured provisions reached Rio Grande river road rock route San Antonio Santa Cruz seemed seen sent side Socorro Sonora Sonora River soon spot spring stopped stream survey Surveyor teamsters tents Texas Thurber tion to-day took town train trees tribe valley Waco wagons
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Seite xxii - Pacific ocean distant one marine league due south of the southernmost point of the port of San Diego, according to the plan of said port made in the year 1782 by Don Juan...
Seite xxi - They shall keep journals and make out plans of their operations ; and the result agreed upon by them shall be deemed a part of this treaty, and shall have the same force as if it were inserted therein.
Seite 3 - If, by the examinations which may be made, it should be ascertained to be practicable and advantageous to construct a road, canal, or railway, which should in whole or in part run upon -the river Gila, or upon its right or its left bank, within the space of one marine league from either margin of the river, the governments of both republics will form an agreement regarding its construction, in order that it may serve equally for the use and advantage of both countries.
Seite 302 - ... influence and power, to rescue them, and return them to their country, or deliver them to the agent or representative of the Mexican Government. The Mexican Authorities will, as far as practicable, give to the Government of the United States notice of such captures; and...
Seite 302 - It shall not be lawful, under any pretext whatever, for any inhabitant of the United States to ' purchase or acquire any Mexican, or any foreigner residing in Mexico, who may have been captured by Indians inhabiting the territory of either of the two republics...
Seite xxi - Those who shall prefer to remain in the said territories, may either retain the title and rights of Mexican citizens, or acquire those of citizens of the United States. But they shall be under the obligation to make their election within one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty ; and those who shall remain in the said territories after the expiration of that year, without having declared their intention to retain the character of Mexicans, shall be considered to have...
Seite 302 - And, in the event of any person or persons, captured within Mexican Territory by Indians, being carried into the territory of the United States, the Government of the latter engages and binds itself in the most solemn manner, so soon as it shall know of such captives being within its...
Seite 314 - The brave who owns these captives does not want to sell. He has had one of these boys six years. He grew up under him. His heart-strings are bound around him. He is as a son to his old age. He speaks our language, and he cannot sell him. Money cannot buy affection. His heart cannot be sold. He taught him to string the bow and wield the lance. He loves the boy and cannot sell him.