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 Ewing Young in Far Southwest 15 informs us that that was what happened to the furs col- lected by Young and his men. Both accounts agree that the furs had been deposited at a neighboring village in order to avoid being apprehended by the Mexican author- ities. Evidently the various accounts relate to the same expeditions. The foregoing details are presented at length in order the more easily to compare them with the narrative of James Ohio Pattie, who, we shall see, evidently fell in with Young's party of "about thirty men" while on the Gila. James Ohio Pattie 's narrative of his expedition dovm the Gila and up the Colorado rivers. According to Pat- tie's narrative, 12 he left the copper mines in Southwestern New Mexico with a company of French trappers bound for the Gila. They traveled down the river beyond the point reached by the Pattie trapping party of 1824-5; and finally arrived at an Indian village situated on the south bank of the river where almost all the inhabitants spoke Spanish, "for," to quote Pattie, "it is situated only three days' journey from a Spanish fort in the province of Sonora. The Indians seemed disposed to be friendly to us. They are to a considerable degree cultivators, raising wheat, corn and cotton which they manufacture into cloths." The trappers had evidently reached the Pima villages near the mouth of the Santa Cruz wash. Three days beyond this village they arrived at the "Papa- war" village, the inhabitants of which, Pattie says, "came running to meet us, with their faces painted, and their bows and arrows in their hands. We were alarmed at these hostile appearances, and halted. We told them that we were friends, at which they threw down their arms, laughing the while, and showing by their counten- ances that they were aware that we were frightened." Upon entering the village the Frenchmen separated among the Indians, and in the evening allowed their 12 The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie, 1833, p. 81 et seq.