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the whole fleet on the coast is quite inferior to that of those who may become the antagonists! The desert South of Ft. Yumai makes it very desirable that in any operation we may have to undertake in Senora that we should have possession of the port of Guymas? if not of Magallan on account of the great saving in cost of transportation. I have just sent supplies for Southern Arizona to Guymas? to be sent up through northern Sonora ? the Juares Governor of Sonora Peschiera now in command will give them safe conduct. I am in hopes the capture of Charlestown and Wilmington may release sufficient naval force to enable the Department to reinforce the fleet in these waters so that we may hold the Gulf of California and preserve our sea communications with the ? In all that I have done, I have acted with every circumspection, so as to give no pretext? to foreign nations for making reclamations upon the government. The measures taken have been announced as military precaution and affect only our own citizens. That amid the overwhelming cares incident to your present duty, this distant field should have engaged your personal attention is very gratifying and this is not less so that I should before your letter was received have in the main, acted in accordance with the views you have done me the honor to express to me.