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Show UNDETERMINED WELLS. 411 gave me great joy, not having seen any since I departed from Aragon. Having traveled three leagues and a half west, I arrived at a rancheria in which they gave me to eat of pinones, with which that land abounds, and made me tarry one day [ July 19] in order that others might come to see me. July 20. I went half a league north to the Aguage de la Rancheria de Santa Margarita; thereafter I traveled two leagues west within sight of ( d la vista de) another rancheria, and having passed over the sierra that on my coming I named ( Sierra) Morena, 22 I found a well that I called ( Pozo) de las Abispas for the many ( wasps) that it had. I passed through a valley about four leagues wide, and having gone four first name to the Colorado Chiquito, originally Rio del Lino or Flax river, in Coronado's time, 1540. But where is this Flax valley? It is a physical impossibility that Garces should have reached the Hualapais valley from any position to which his previous mileage has advanced him; and this valley is hardly to be called " little " ( pequeno). * Here we are confronted with the Cerbat range. This much is certain; but the details given for to- day remain for me unexplained. I cannot point to St. Margaret or Wasp well, nor do I see how Garces crosses the Cerbat range to- day as he says- for we are told to- morrow that he goes two leagues to its summit; what is said of the rancheria sighted is not clear, nor is it quite certain whether he goes 7l/ 2 or 11 leagues. I believe that the valley four leagues wide is Hualapais valley, and that our traveler is somewhere on the eastern slope of the Cerbat range, in the vicinity of Isabel spring. |