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first as sixteen and later as thirty-two, it would seem that there
has been an omission somewhere.
The outcome of the expedition is told by Gregg as an anecdote
on the first administration of Armijo, who succeeded Narbona as
governor of New Mexico in May, 1827. Gregg says, "A law was
then in existence which had been enacted by the General Congress
prohibiting foreigners from trapping beaver in the Mexican ter-
ritory, under penalty of confiscation, etc., but as there were no
native trappers in New Mexico, Governor Baca and his successor
(Narbona) thought it expedient to extend licenses to foreigners,
in the name of citizens, upon condition of their taking a certain
proportion of Mexicans to learn the art of trapping. In pur-
suance of this disposition, Governor Narbona extended a license
to one Ewing Young, who was accompanied by a Mr. Sublette,
brother of Captain Win. Sublette, and almost equally celebrated
for his mountain adventures. Previous to the return of this
party from their trapping expedition, Armijo had succeeded Nar-
bona in office and they were informed that it was his intention
to seize their furs. To prevent this, they deposited them at a
neighboring village, where they were afterward discovered, seized,
and confiscated. The furs being damp, they were spread out in
the sun before the Guardia, in Santa F6, when Sublette, perceiv-
ing two packs of beaver which had been his own property, got
by honest labor, instantly seized them and carried them away
before the eyes of the whole garrison, and concealed both them
and his own person in a house opposite. . . . Mr. Sublette
finally conveyed his furs in safety to the frontier, and thence to
the United States."
This account of Gregg's is corroborated by the continuation of
the narrative in the Watson Sketch in such a way that makes it
perfectly clear that Yount was a member of the Ewing Young
party. To pick up the account where we dropped it after the
battle with the Maricopas, the Sketch states that the trappers
explored the Gila River to its source. This, possibly, refers to
Salt River, or Black River, the name by which it was known to
the early trappers, for they had just descended the Gila. The
Sketch continues: "A little below the villages of the Maricopas
was a lake abounding in black beaver. In trapping on the Colo-
rado they constructed a small water craft by scooping out cotton-248
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