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Show OTHERWISE TRUXTON WASH. 323 in others is dry; in the evening I went one league in the same arroyo and direction. I halted in an unin-direction it continued [ compare what is already said in this note]. . . Ten or twelve miles from [ last] camp, Mr. Peacock, who was riding in advance, discovered a large spring of clear, sweet water in a ravine near the road. There were no signs of the place having been used as a camp, and even Ireteba did not appear to have known previously of its existence. A Mexican subsequently found a running stream a mile or two further on, where the Indians passing this way had been in the habit of stopping." This identifies Ives' Peacock spring with modern Truxton spring, without prejudice to the question whether or not it is what Beale called by the latter name. Now for the stream which Garc6s says " runs in part and in others is dry " in his Arroyo de San Bernabe. Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves came westward through this wash or arroyo, first of the modern explorers whose trails are of record, and we read in his Rep. Expl. Zuni and Col. R., 8vo, 1853, p. 14, at date of Oct. 28, 1851: " A party sent out to reconnoitre brought back the gratifying intelligence that twelve miles in advance was a small stream of running water and abundance of good grass. A band of Yampais were found encamped upon it, from whom Mr. Leroux [ Antoine, the guide] learned that the numerous trails we had observed for the last two or three days united and led to the Mohaves." Again, p. 15, Oct 30: " This rivulet, which I have called the Yampai, has its source in three small springs; it is repeatedly lost in the ground within a distance of half a mile; after which it disappears entirely. A few willow and cotton-wood trees grow upon its banks, and green grass was here seen for the first time since leaving the San Francisco mountains." In this rediscovery, post- dating Garc6s three- quarters of a century, we have the origin of the name Yampai creek, lettered to- day on the G. L. O. map, and appearing in various forms on many another map. The word is a bad shape of Yabipai or |