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After a couple of days we came to Fort Wingate , which controls the Navajo Indian Reservation . We camped here for a day to have some repair work done to our wagons , and I took a stroll over the hills after rabbits and returned to camp at nightfall . Don Juan told me that he had been visited by a number of Indians , who had bartered him some blankets and buckskins and he was highly pleased thereat . The next morning we started early and traveled until noon . Several Indians had been following us for some time , and as soon as we made camp they squatted at our fire , while others were continually arriving , some afoot , but most of them on horseback . Manuelito , a grand-looking chief , rode into camp on the finest Indian pony I had ever seen . It was beautifully caparisoned ; the saddle , bridle , and trappings were covered with silver mountings .