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136 ■■ PREPAEING FOR BATTLE. which adjoins streams. All was bustle and e,T.d!.e- ment, but he who was most excited was Ysopete. He could plainly see that they were his own kind of people. He wislied to talk with them and ran towards ■them shouting in their own tongue and making the signs of friendship used by his people; but after watching him for a while, not being able to compre- hend such a sight as they saw, they were dazed with wonder. They had seen the party for some time, and mind you, an Indian can see farther than a white man. ~The sight was such as neither themselves nor their ancestors had ever witnessed before. Were it possible to put into print aU they thought it would be !literature and sentences never conceived before. The wonderful and incomprehensible humans having great big bodies glittering in the sun must be gods, or spirits; they cannot be real. They see Alonso riding at a fast gallop and the soldier running at rac- ing pace toward Coronado, to inform him of the pres- ence of the natives. If you could have slipped into their company you would have heard exclamations of wonderment. Ysopete was running towards them but they could not understand his shouts, and in fact they did not remain for him to get near enough to make them understand. Being so excited, they turned about and ran with all their might toward home, v^hich was some thirty miles, located near Council Grove,' Morris County. They did not stop until they reached their chief, whom they informed of the wonderful sight they had seen. You can irHagine the bustle and excitement in camp that night;' Elll' Were on the qui vive; hot "kno'wiiig . 'Sr;- - . ■