cuing me had joined the expedition with about forty or
fifty employes of the caravan.

Most of Seguin's band had escaped after the fight in the barranca, and
among the rest, I was rejoiced to hear, El Sol and La Luna. They were
now on their return with Seguin, and I found them at his tent.

Seguin welcomed me as the bearer of joyful news. They were still safe.
That was all I could tell him, and all he asked for during our hurried
congratulation.

We had no time for idle talk. A hundred men immediately mounted and
rode up the ravine. On reaching the ground occupied by the picket, they
led their horses behind the rocks, and formed an ambuscade. The order
was, that all the Indians must be killed or taken.

The plan hastily agreed upon was, to let them pass the ambushed men, and
ride on until they had got in sight of the main body; then both
divisions were to close upon them.

It was a dry ravine above the spring, and the horses had made no tracks
upon its rocky bed. Moreover, the Indians, ardent in their pursuit of
me, would not be on the outlook for any sign before reaching the water.
Should they pass the ambuscade, then not a man of them would escape, as
the defile on both sides was walled in by a precipice.

After the others had gone, about a hundred men at the spring leaped into
their saddles, and sat with their eyes bent up the pass.

They were not long kept waiting. A few minutes after the ambuscade had
been placed, an Indian showed himself round an angle of the rock, about
two hundred yards above the spring. He was the foremost of the
warriors, and must have passed the ambushed horsemen; but as yet the
latter lay still. Seeing a body of men, the savage halted with a quick
jerk; and then, uttering a cry, wheeled and rode back upon his comrades.
These, imitating his example, wheeled also; but before they had fairly
turned themselves in the ravine, the "cached" horsemen sprang out in a
body from the rocks and came galloping down.

The Indians, now seeing that they were completely in the trap, with
overpowering numbers on both sides of them, threw down their spears and
begged for mercy.

In a few minutes they were all captured. The whole affair did not
occupy half an hour; and, with our prisoners securely tied, we returned
to the spring.

The leading men now gathered around Seguin to settle on some plan for
attacking the town. Should we move on to it that night?

I was asked for my advice, and of