This is a very important station on account of being a pass for horses; and it was, in consequence, for some time the head-quarters of a division of the army.

When the troops first arrived there they found a tribe of Indians, of whom they killed twenty or thirty.

The cacique escaped in a manner which astonished every one.

The chief Indians always have one or two picked horses, which they keep ready for any urgent occasion.

On one of these, an old white horse, the cacique sprung, taking with him his little son.