The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1847-12-24

the old maps,) and the hanuts of marau.
ding Indians. For safety during their
rePose' the party turned of the trace is
sued through canada into thick wood
aud lay down, the horses being put 10
grass at short distance with the Spanish
boy 10 saddle TO watch. Sleep, when
commenced, was too sweet to be easily
given up. and it was half way between
midnight and day when the sleepers we're
aroused by an estampedO among the hor
ses and the calls Of the boy.
The cause Of alarm was soon found,
not Indians, but white bears-this valley
being thei: great resort, encountered
some hundred Of them the summer be-
fore, killing thirteen upon The ground
The character of these bears is well
known, and the bravest hunters do not
like TO meet them witheat advantage of
numbers. On discovering the enemy.
Col. F. feltfor his pistols, but Don Jesus
desired him to lie still, saying that "peo-
pie could scare bears;" and Immediately
lie hallowed at them in Spanish, and they
went of. Sleep went off also; and the
recovery of the horses frightened by the
bears, building rousing fire, making a
breakfast from the hospitable supplies of
San Luis Obispo, occupied the party till
Idaybreak; when the journey was resum-
ed. Eighty miles and the afternoon
brought the party to Monterey.
The next day, in the afternoon, the
party set out on their return, and the two
horses ridden by Col F. from Obispo, be-
ing present to him from Don Jesus, he
don jesus desired to make an expert
ment Of what one of them could do
They were brothers, one a grass young
er than the other, both of the same color.
(cinnamon) and hence called cGnalO or
los c0nalOs, (the cinnamon, or the CHINA
mons.) The elder brother was taken for
the trial; and the journey commenced up
nhim at leaving Monterey, the afternoon
well advanced. Thirty miles under sad
die done that evening, and the party
stopped for the night. In the morning
the elder canaio was again under saddle
for Col. +. and for ninety miles he
carried him without change and with
out apparent fatigue. 1t was still thirty
miles TO San Luis Obispo, where the
night was to be passed. and Don Jesus
insisted that caaal0 could easily do it,
and so said the horse by his looks and ac-
ton. But Col F. would not put him 10
the trial, and, shifting the saddle to the
younger brother, the elder was turned
loose 10 run the remaining thirty miles
without rider.
He did so, Immediately taking the lead
and keeping it all the way. and entering
San Luis in a sweeping gallop. nostrils
distended, suufing the air and neighing
with exultation of his return to his native
pastures, hisyounger brother all the while
running at the head of the horses under
the saddle. bearing on his bit, and held
in by his rider. The whole eight horses
made their one hundred and twenty miles
each that day, latter thirty the evening
BEFORE the elder cinnamon making nine
ty under the saddle that day; besides
thirty under the saddle the evening be-
fore; nor was there the least doubt that
he would have done the whole distance
in the same time if he had continued
under the saddle.
After hospitable detention of another
half day at San Luis Obispo, the party
set out for los Angeles on the same nine
horses which they had ridden from that
place. and made the ride back in about
the same time they had made it up, name
ly at the rate of l25 miles day.
On this ride the grass OH the road was
the food for the horses. At Monterey
they had barley; but those horses. mean
ing those trained and domeslicated. as
the canalos we're, eat almost anything in
the way of vegetable food or even drink,
that their master uses, by whom they are
petted and caressed, and rarely sold.-
Bread, fruits, sugar, coffee, and even
wine, (like the Persian horse they take
from The hand of their master, and obey
with like docility his slightest intimaiion.
A tap OF the whip on the saddle springs
them into action; the check of thread
rein ION the Spanish bit) would stop them
and stopped short at speed they do not
ostle the rider or throw him forward.-
They leap on anything-man. beast or
weapon. ON which their master directs
them. But this description, so far as
conduct or beheavior is concerned, Of
course only applies to the trained and
domesticaied horse.
History" need not be waited for,
the newspapers having long since told
the story. Don Jesus was the leader of
the insurrection. Taken prisoner by
Col. Fremont, he was condemned to
death, bu; his life was yielded to the en-
treaties and prayers Of his wife. who
made her way to the presence Of Col.
Fremont for the purpose. Ever since he
has been Col, Fremout's firm and faith
ful friend.-Com. AdU. ot
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