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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.