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Show "ESCALANTE IN DlXiE " Hi ARIZONA STRIP" By Dr. F.rrbert Eugene Bolton, Ph. D. - University of California. (From Kscalanle's Liary) We set out from San .ingel to the south-southeast and having traveled half a league we. turned east-southeast for two "leagues, ""over hills andwide valleys;, with good pasturage but very" rocky. Not finding water we swung to the east-northeast lor two more leagues, ascending and descending stony hills that were hard on the horses. (In four lines Escalante here summarizes twelve miles of inter esting and difficult travel.) The writing was vastly easier than the journey. Two leagues east-southeast took him. over rolling country, coun-try, very rocky in places, and across Lang's run. Here evidently they were disappointed to find no water, which the run had promised. prom-ised. They now swung east-northeast over the saddle between two of the seven conspicuous, symmetrical-, hills that lay in front of them. ' V.'a swung southeast around these hills and rejoined Escalante's trail near the forks of Mt. Trumbull Trum-bull roai. Passing near the south end of Black canyon they continued con-tinued east over cedar covered r, ridges to the- little-- mesa ;, where the Indians" were spying on them. Black canyon runs north through a deep gorge, having high, steep, black-walled mesas on either side. On the top of the eastern mesa there is a large, truncated ash cone, north of Escalante's trail.) Five Indians were spying on us from a small hut high mesa. As we two fathers, who were traveling travel-ing behind the companions, passed pass-ed by the foot of it they hailed us. When we turned toward them four of them hid, only one remaining re-maining in sight, and we saw that he was greatly frightened. We could not persuade him to come down, so we two alone climbed up on foot with great - difficulty At each step which we took toward to-ward him he wished to flee, but we gave him to understand that he should not be afraid, because "we" loved him like a son and wished wish-ed to talk with him. With this he waited for us, making a thousand gestures, showing that he was much 2 f raid of us. As soon as we got up to where he was we embraced him and, sitting sit-ting down beside him, we had the Indian interpreter and the La- guna come up. Having now recovered recov-ered from his fright he told us that four others were hidden there, and that if we wished he would call them so that we might see them. When we answered in the affirmative he laid his bow and arrows on the ground, took the interpreter by the hand and went with him to bring them. They came and we spent about an hour in talking. They told that we now had water nearby. We begged them to guide us to it, promising them a piece of shal-lon, shal-lon, (a kind of cloth), and after much urging three of them agreed to go with us. Greatly fatigued from thirst and hunger, we started start-ed with them a league to the southeast, and flien going another to the south over a bad and very 1 stony road, we came to a small cedar covered ridge and an ar-royo ar-royo which had two large pools of good water in the holes in the rocks. (By following the directions given here we found the route just as Escalante describes it, recks and all. Without any previous' knowledge of such a water hole, our directions took us to Cooper's Coop-er's Pockets, in a draw on the slope of a cedar covered ridge. These pockets are unmistakably the place where Escalante's party got their water. On the edge of the plain, near the foot of the cedar-covered ridge, is Cooper's old sheep corral. To the west of the cedar covered ridge is Hat Cone, a steep volcanic ash cone, crowned with a very sharp peak, like a monument, and visible at a distance. The camp of San Samuel Sam-uel was doubtless on the edge of the grass-covered plain, below the water pockets, which are in a stony arroyo in a ' rough - draw. Here, near the old corral, was enacted the interesting trading scene. A mile or more to the east-' east-' ward of Cooper's Pockets is . Franklin Heaton's reservoir, named I for Franklin Heaton, of Pipe Springs, who gave us .valuable in- formation when we reached his residence.) We took enough lor ourselves ; and then brought the horses. They ; ,were so thirsty they drank both : pools dry. Here we decided to pass the night, naming the place San ! the night, naming the place San 1 Samuel. Today six leagues. As they came along wltti us the three Indians mentioned were so fearful that they did not wish to go ahead nor let us get near them until they had talked with the Laguna Joaohin (a guide brought from Utah lake), but with what he told them about us they quited down. Among other things they asked him, marveling at his bravery, how he had dared to come with us. Desiring t quiet their fears, and in order to relieve re-lieve the need wflich to cr great sorrow he was suffering, he answered an-swered them as best he could. In this way he greatiy dispelled the fear and suspicion which they had felt, and it was for this reason doubtless they did not desert us before we reached the waterhole. As soon as we halted we gave them the promised shalloon, with which they were greatly delighted. delight-ed. Knowing that we were without with-out provisions, they said that we should send one of our men with one of them to go to their little houses, which were somewhat distant, dis-tant, and bring provisions, the others remaining with us meanwhile. mean-while. We sent one .of foe Janissaries with the Laguna Joachin, giving him the wherewithal to buy food, and a pack mule on which to carry car-ry it. They departed with the other Indians, and after midnight returned bringing a small piece of wild sheep, dried tuna made into cakes and some grass seeds. They also brought news of one of the two men who the previous night had gone for water, saying that he had been at this rancho. The other had reached camp this night about 10 o'clock. October 19. Twenty of these Indians In-dians came to camp with some tunas made into a round cake or loaf, and several bags of seeds of different plants, to sell to us. We paid them for what they brought and told them that if they had meat, pine nuts, and more tunas they should bring them and we would buy them all, especially the meat. They said they would, but that we would have to wait for them until noon. We accepted tMe conditions and they departed. One of them promised to accompany us as far as the river if we wouid wait until afternoon and we agreed to this also. ( After midday many more of the same people who formerly had been with us came, among them being one who, they said, was a Mescalero Apache, and who had come with two others from his country to this, crossing the river a few days before. In physiognomy physiog-nomy he was by no means agreeable, agree-able, and he distinguished himself from these Indians by the disgust dis-gust with which he looked upon us for being here, and by the greater animosity which he purposely pur-posely displayed, as it seemed to us. They told us that these Apach es were their friends. They brought us no meat at all, but thsy did bring many bags of seeds and , some fresh tunas already sun-dried, sun-dried, some of them being in the form of dry round caks. We bought about a bushel of the seeds and all the tuna. We talked for a long time concerning the distance to the river, the road te it the number of these tod and their mode oi living neighboring peoples, and the zZ whom we were seeking. (To be Continued) |