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Known some men even sent in search of him. They looked all over the neighborhood, made inquiries of the Indians, but could learn nothing of him We remained? a few days awaiting his return but as he did not come in we departed. We had left word through with Mr. Sutter to unclear search for and if possible find him, he did so and some time after our departure he was found. Kept at the fort and properly cared for till he got well and then Mr. Sutter sent him to the States. We unclear up the valley of the San Joaquin on our way home. We crossed the Sierra Nevada and coast range where they join a beautiful low pass We continued under the Coast range till we struck the Spanish Trail, then on to the Mohave river, a small stream that rises in the coast range and is last? in the great Basin uncertain We then went to where the trail leaves the Mohave, uncertain. In the evening of the same day a Mexican man and his boy cam to our camp. They informed us that they belonged to a party of Mexicans from New Mexico, they and two men and women were encamped a distance from the main party and were engaged in herding horses uncertain. When a band of Indians charged on them for the purposes of driving off their stock, these Indians advised the men and women to make their escape + informed them that they would guard the horses. The Mexicans did not of course believe them but managed to and get away themselves. They had left the horses to what they thought was safety at a spring in the desert, about thirty miles from our camp. We started for the place where they said they had left their animals + found that they had been taken by the Indians who had followed them. The Mexicans requested uncertain