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 Ewing Young in Far Southwest 29 of five of which were Mexican silver dollars. They trav- eled the regular route down the Rio del Norte, past the Santa Rita copper mines, the abandoned mission San Xavier del Bac, the presidio of Tucson, the Pima Indian villages on the Gila, down the Gila to the Colorado, which they crossed a few miles below the mouth of the Gila, and past the mission San Luis Rey to San Diego, thence by the coast to Los Angeles which they reached December 5, 1831. From Los Angeles, Jackson and the majority of his party went north as far as the missions on the southern shores of the Bay of San Francisco for the pur- pose of purchasing mules. Young leads trapping party to California, 1831. While they were thus engaged, we shall go back and follow the movements of the other party. This one was under the command of Ewing Young and consisted of thirty-six men, according to Job E. Dye, 20 who was a member of the party and who has left us an account of the trip. The names of seventeen members of the company are recorded in Dye's narrative as follows: Sidney Cooper, Moses Carson, Benjamin Day, Isaac Sparks, Joseph Gale, Joseph Dofit, John Higans, Isaac Williams, James Green, Cambridge (Turkey) Green, James Anderson, Thomas Low, Julian Bargas, Jose Teforia, John Price, and Job F. Dye. The exact date on which the party set out is not stated. Dye simply says that they "left San Fernando [Taos] in October, 1831." In three days, he says, they reached the Zuni village, where they remained two days, "for the purpose of obtaining from the Indians a sufficient supply of pinole (roasted corn meal) and pinoche (sugar) and frijoles (beans) required for the route." This is just an illustration of the position occupied by the Zuni Indian villages. They were frequently visited by parties setting out down the Gila, as the last place where supplies might 20 "Recollections of a Pioneer of California" (Santa Cruz Sentinel, May 8-15, 1869).