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I left Santa Fe for Texas. Shortly after my arrival from El Paso and got employment ^[as a cook with] strikethrough of /strikethrough Mr. Ewing Young? strikethrough to do his cooking /strikethrough my board being the renumeration. In the Spring I once more departed for the States, ^[but] met a party on the Arkansas and again returned to Santa Fe. I then was employed by Co. Tramell, a merchant, as Interpreter. strikethrough In /strikethough I accompanied him to Chihuahua and then ? with Robert M Knight to go to the Copper mines Near strikethrough the /strikethrough ^[the] Rio Gila. I remained strikethrough on the Gila /strikethrough ^[at the mines] a few Months driving ^[a] team. ^[As] I was not satisfied with this employment. I strikethrough took my discharge and /strikethrough departed for Taos ^[where I] arrived in August 1828. Some time before my arrival Mr. Ewing Young had sent a party of trappers to the Colorado of the West. ^[They were defeated] in a fight with the Indians strikethrough were defeated /strikethrough Having fought all of one day and gaining no advantage they considered it pruedent sic to Return. Young then Raised ^[another] party of forty men consisting of Americans, Canadians and Frenchmen and took command himself. I joined the strikethrough party. We /strikethrough ^[expedition which] left Taos in August 1829. In those days ? were not granted to Citizens of the United States to trap within the limit of the Mexican Territory- To avoid all mistrust on the part of the Government Offices we travelled in a Northern direction. For Fifty miles and then changed our course to ^[the] South West strikethrough travelled /strikethrough journeyed through the country occupied by the Navajo Indians, passed the Village of Zuni and on to the head of the Salt River, one of the tributaries of Rio Gila. [ strikethrough NE? /strikethrough ] ^[At] the head waters of