On application, Captain Butter sent some Indians back into the bushes, who recovered and brought in all our animals.

At that time there was not the sign of a habitation there or thereabouts, except the fort, and an old adobe-house, east of the fort, known as the hospital.

The fort itself was one of adobe-walls, about twenty feet high, rectangular in form, with two-story block houses at diagonal corners.

The entrance was by a large gate, open by day and closed at night, with two iron ship's guns near at hand.
Inside there was a large house, with a good shingle-roof, used as a storehouse, and all round the walls were ranged rooms, the fort wall being the outer wall of the house.

The inner wall also was of adobe.