TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916 403 twenty miles below, are peculiar and well worth the attention of the United States and Mexican Governments. The Apache are usually at war with the people of both countries, but have friendly leagues with certain towns, where they trade and re- ceive supplies of arms, ammunition, etc., for stolen mules. This is undoubtedly the case with the people of San Carlos, who also have amicable relations with the Comanche, who make San Carlos a depot of arms in their anual excursions into Mexico. While at the Presidio we had authentic accounts of the unmo- lested march through Chihuahua, towards Durango, of four hundred Comanche under Bajo Sol. It seems that Chihuahua, not receiving the protection it was entitled to from the central government of Mexico, made an independent treaty with the Comanche, the practical effects of which was to aid and abet the Indians in their war upon Durango. In the fall of 1851, I had the honor of entertaining at my camp the excellent and reverend Bishop Leamy, who was then on his return from a visit to the Bishop of Durango, to adjust the territorial limits of their respective dioceses, to make them conform to the altered boundaries of New Mexico and Texas. He stated, as his opinion, that the wealthy State of Durango must soon be depopulated by the Indians. Haciendas, within a few leagues of the city, that once numbered one hundred thou- sand animals, are now abandoned. This condition of things, together with the three years drought, had overwhelmed the inhabitants of that State and had driven them to unmanly despair on the occasion of a great fiesta in the city of Durango, where no less than ten thousand people were assembled in and around the plaza, the cry was heard of "Los Indios!" "Baja Sol!" and in a very short time every one had retreated to his house, leaving no one to face the enemy. The enemy, however, did not appear on the occasion, for it turned out to be a false alarm." "E." -An address of citizens residing between the Nueces and the Rio Grande, with an account of one of the raids of the same Lipan, aided, perhaps, by a few Kickapoo and Mexicans. It contains the official report of the damages and murders com- mitted by them. "F."-An extract from the "Periodico Official," or Official Gazette of Monterey, the captial of New Leon, and Headquar- ters of the Military Commandante of the Army of Northern
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