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 Ewing Young in Far Southwest 31 later journey and then proceeded across the desert to Los Angeles where they arrived March 14, 1832. Jackson returns to New Mexico with mules, 1832. Early in April, Jackson returned from the north with about 600 mules and 100 horses. As this was a much smaller number than it was hoped he would obtain, the plans of the two partners were somewhat altered. In- stead of the two companies joining and all proceeding together through Texas to Louisiana, as it had been ten- tatively planned, it was now resolved that Jackson should return to New Mexico with the purchased animals along the route he had come out, while Young, after assisting Jackson to cross the Colorado, should spend the summer in California hunting sea otter and in the fall proceed with a party of trappers to the San Joaquin and Sacra- mento rivers for a beaver hunt. The return trip began in May. The company broke camp on the Santa Anna River at La Sierra Rancho and set out for the Colorado, arriving there in June. After the crossing was effected, which was done with consider- able difficulty and the loss of a number of animals, owing to the high water, Young with some five men returned to California while the rest of the company proceeded to New Mexico. Further details of the Jackson division of the company have not been preserved. Young engages in otter hunting along the California coast, 1832. Upon arriving again in Los Angeles in June, 1832, Young arranged with Father Sanches, who was then in charge of San Gabriel mission and who owned a brig commanded by Captain William Richardson, to transport his party on an otter-hunting expedition. The party consisted of seven men, according to Warner, two of whom were Kanakas. Young seems soon to have tired of the sport of shooting otters after having been "spilt out of the canoe into the surf a number of times," and so left the party when near Point Conception and proceeded by land to Monterey. The rest of the party cruised