The Arizona sentinel., 1888-10-20

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 and the narrative" of the stingaret and they were added to our collectio
 of trophies On the second day of ou
 stay at San Felipe the Capt. and Nil Powell started to explore the mes lying between the beach and the chai
 of mountains running paraled with tn
 Coast. Owing to the fact that the,
 took with them only small supply Q
 water, they were unable to make al
 extended trip, but they found tn
 mesa to be well worthy of a nor
 through exploration. Deer and ante
 lope are there in great numbers, ant the plain is covered with a thicl growth of copal trees. When thei supply of water was exhausted thel
 were compelled to return to camp bringing with them supply of th' gum from the copal trees and num- Der of mineral specimens gathered by the way. We remained in camp ol the bay until our supply of water be- gan to near tie point of "shert allow ance," and deeming it best to take al vantage of fair breeze which would while it should last, take us toward nome, we packed up our belongings and, having dashed our boats firmly side by side, bid farewell to San Felipe and set sail once more for the moutl of the river.
 We went out with rather strong breeze from the s. E. and found, whe We were fairly under way, that the man who built our boats had made them about three feet too low on the weather side, as tley lacked about that much of keeping out the water from the seas which broke against their sides in rapid profusion;" I was very much amused at first to SC, Change, whose dNsky face was, as usual, wreaChed in nest elaborate smile which spread hls mouth to oboui the dimensions of small horse collar, receive an occasional swat from sea, of which he would swallow half gal lon or so, and then sputter as if h. didn't like it. Soon however the beauty of this sort of thing faded from my view, just about the time that couple of barrels of the saltest water 1 ever ate rolled in on top of me (and into mel and from that moment the joy and the brightness had all faded out of the Grmament, and life seemed to me barren waste. 1 am morally cer- tain that there was not swell on the Gulf that broke anywhere that day eX- cept upon my back. You see the Cap tain, having noticed that 1 am wider and thicker than any other member of the party, had set me up in the stern of the outside boat as a breakwater, and was pleased to say later that if l had been two feet wider and three feet higher I would have met all the re- qu;renents.
 After all the water in the Gulf had got into the boat, I abandoned my position as assistant steersman one cunt steer boat we'll, you know, un- less there is little water outside ofit) ard took to baling- "Slapjacks" and I worked long and well and just as night came on and 1 had begun to be- lieve that life ion the Gulf is not one continual round of pleasure and hilar- ity, 1 discovered that we had raised the level of the sea a couple of feet with the water we had thrown out of the boat. The Captain thought the tide had something to do with this, but l knew better. We ran into the mouth of small slough, and as far out into the mud as our boats would sail and calmly, and damply, lay down to await the coming of the day. The day came, as days 0iH come, even to men as get as we were, and we were once more out upon the sea, and found it as wet as ever. However by ten o'clock a. m. we had made Unman point, op- posite the head of Montague Islands, and here we went ashore to dry our cloi hes and bedding, and rest ourselves
 
 by cleaning our guns, and cooking din ner and breaking the incrustations of salt off our wearied frames. About 3 D. m. we re-emharked and headed up the shore for the mouth of the rIver, and made good progress until some where about ten o'clock p. m., when we found ourselves aground upon a bar where we decided to remain, as we could not find our way off in the dark About day break the tide enabled us to make another start and we were off for the Colony.
 As we had no wind we converted our Indians into tow horses, and in this way moved along at a moderate rate of speed to Mir. Armitage's ranch at the ''Gridiron" where we procured team, and after a heartily meal at the kind hands of Mrs. Armitage were driven by Mir. A. to the Colony, ten miles distant, arriving there about 9.30 D. m. We found that Mr. Eduardo Andrada, the Supt., was absent, but he had arranged for team to convey us to Yuma, so we took leave of our friend MT. Armitage, and retired for the night. We slept we'll (the ground iS mt 9,erq, hard at Terdol md at S