Note II'-34 — Chapter II · ITINERARY, CONTINUED: THROUGH OLD MEXICO, IN CHIHUAHUA, DURANGO, AND COAHUILA, TO THE PRESIDIO GRANDE, MARCH 22D-MAY 31ST, 1807.

Before coming to Patos and Florida, we will see what Wislizenus says, Mem. p. 73: "May 18. Through a wide valley, with mountains to the north and south, we went to-day (18 miles) to Rancho Nuevo, and encamped about one mile southeast of it, in a valley.... Some miles from our camp, in a corner, amidst mountains, lies Castañuela, an old but small town, from which a shorter but very rough road leads over the mountains to Parras. A fine creek runs by it, descending from the southwest mountains and turning towards the northeast." This seems to be about the place to which Pike was brought on the 19th.