Datems, a green, sweet fruit still eaten by the Mexicans, were identified everywhere in the cave-dwellings.
Having effectually started the work of investigation here, I went to look after the second section of my expedition, which had been sent to San Diego.

I covered the thirty-five miles with four pack mules in one day.

There is a charming view from the brow of the sierra over the plains of San Diego, which are fully ten miles wide; but after descending to them I found a hard, cold wind blowing.

The weather here is not at all as pleasant as in the sheltered Cave Valley up in the mountains.
I went to Casas Grandes, a village of 1,200 souls, six miles north of San Diego, and succeeded in getting a draft cashed.

On learning that Mr.Moses Thatcher, a prominent Mormon apostle from Utah, was on a tour of inspection of the colonies, I proceeded to Colonia Juarez, a prosperous Mormon settlement on the Piedras Verdes River, ten miles from Casas Grandes and six miles from San Diego.