This saving was purchased by the commissary for the benefit of the fund.

In the emergency the 4th infantry was laboring under, I rented a bakery in the city, hired bakers--Mexicans--bought fuel and whatever was necessary, and I also got a contract from the chief commissary of the army for baking a large amount of hard bread.

In two months I made more money for the fund than my pay amounted to during the entire war.

While stationed at Monterey I had relieved the post fund in the same way.

There, however, was no profit except in the saving of flour by converting it into bread.
In the spring of 1848 a party of officers obtained leave to visit Popocatapetl, the highest volcano in America, and to take an escort.