There was, in addition, a small American trading post, at which goods were sold to Mexican smugglers.

All goods were put up in compact packages of about one hundred pounds each, suitable for loading on pack mules.

Two of these packages made a load for an ordinary Mexican mule, and three for the larger ones.

The bulk of the trade was in leaf tobacco, and domestic cotton-cloths and calicoes.

The Mexicans had, before the arrival of the army, but little to offer in exchange except silver.