of dried meats, berries, buffalo robes, powder, cooking utensils, &c. ; also a buggy and spring wagon, the property of Sierrito, or Little Mountain, the Kiowa chief.

November 27. -An Apache Indian, in attempting to escape from Captain Thompson's company, First Cavalry New Mexico Volunteers, en route to Fort Whipple, was killed by the guard. Colonel Oscar M. Brown, First Cavalry California Volunteers, with 100 men returned from a scout to the Apache country. Four squaws were captured by Colonel Brown's command. Although this scout of nearly sixty days was unsuccessful, it was one of the hardest of the year.

December 2. -One thousand and twenty Navajo Indians, having in their possession 3,500 sheep and goats, 400 horses, and 30 mules, arrived at Fort Sumner.

December. -Major E. W. Eaton, First Cavalry New Mexico Volunteers, on a scout after Indians came upon their camp near Red River; killed 1 Indian, took 2 prisoners, and recovered 175 sheep, 1 horse, and 1 burro. These were the Indians who helped to run off sheep from Limitar on the 8th of November.

December 15. -Captain Allen L. Anderson, Fifth U. S. Infantry, with a small party of men attacked an Indian rancheria near the Weaver Mines, Ariz. ; killed 3 and wounded 3 Apache Indians. Captain John Thompson, First Cavalry New Mexico Volunteers, with a party of twelve enlisted men attacked an Apache rancheria near Weaver, Ariz. ; killed 11 and wounded 4.

December 24. -Lieutenant Paul Dowlin, First Cavalry New Mexico Volunteers, reports that on his return trip from Fort Whipple, Ariz., the Navajo Indians run off 14 of his mules.

December 25. -A band of Apaches Indians made an attack on the town of Rincon, near Fort McRae, N. Mex. ; took a Mexican by prisoner and drove off 9 head of cattle. A party was started in pursuit and succeeded in recovering 3 head of cattle. The Mexican boy's body was found, lanced in several places.

December 29. -Captain William Brady, First Cavalry New Mexico Volunteers, reports that he found the body of Reyes Flores, the guide, near the Tuleroso Saw-mill. Whether he had been killed by Indians or by others is not certain.

December 31. -Lieutenant Samuel L. Barr with Company F, Fifth U. S. Infantry, and a detachment of First Cavalry New Mexico Volunteers, surprised an Indian camp near Sycamore Springs, Ariz. ; killed 4 Indians and captured 2 head of cattle. *

Aggregate number of Apache Indians at the Bosque Redondo Reservation on the 31st day of December, 1864.

Mescalero Apaches:

Men. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Women. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Children. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

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Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Gila Apaches:

Men. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Women. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Children. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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*For recapitulation of a census of the Navajo Indians on the reservation at the Bosque Redondo, N. Mex., on the 1st of December, 1864, their stock, &c., taken by Captain Francis McCabe, First Cavalry New Mexico Volunteers (here omitted) see p. 523.

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