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Soon after this we came to the village of the Pima Indians and there on account of the scarcity of grass we continued up the Gila to the mouth of the San Pedro River and then for three days up this steam, from there we took a straight course for the copper mines then we journeyed on to the Del Norte and thence home, through the settlements of the Rio Abajo, arriving at Taos on the 25th day of Decr. 1853. On my way home I saw the Mormon Delegate to Congress + was informed by him that I had received the appointment of Indian Agent and on my arrival at Taos I accepted it and gave the necessary bond. In February 1854 the Jiscarilla? Apache Indians showed a hostile disposition Lieut Bell of the 2nd Drags had a fight with them on the waters of the Red river in which there was one or two soldiers killed and others wounded but in the affray a number of the Indians were also killed and they were forced to retreat. Lieutenant Bell charged them once or twice and although they were superior in number they were unable to hold their ground. In March I proceeded to Santa Fe on business pertaining to my office; just before my departure a large party of Jiscarilla? Apaches came within twenty miles of Taos. I saw a good many of the chiefs and they all pretended friendship, but during my absence they became hostile, Lieut. J.W. Davidson of the 1st Dragoons and sixty Dragoons of Companies F + J?? were ordered against them and the command overtook them in the Embudo mountains, about 20 miles South west of Taos, from the preparations they had made and because they had chosen such an advantageous position, the Indians evidently intended to fight the troops sent against them provided? they did not come in force. Lt. Davidson had sixty men and there were seventy