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 on the 26th February a terrible revelation was made by the arrival of a party of Europeans from Santa Fé, one of the Spanish stations in New Mexico, who informed Pike that a party of Utah Indians, members of the great untamed Shoshone family, were about to attack him, and that he was infringing the laws of the Mexican Government by navigating the Rio Bravo del Norte without permission.

CAPTAIN LEWIS BEHOLDING THE MISSOURI.

The report of the intentions of the Utahs seems scarcely to have troubled Pike, but at the mention of the Rio Bravo del Norte, he exclaimed, "What! is not this the Red River?" "No, sir," replied the spokesman of the detachment from Santa Fé; "it is the Rio del Norte." "Immediately,"