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Show CHAPTER FIVE Fig. 93- Yampai Indians. Lithograph based on a drawing by Richard H. Kern. Lorenzo Sitgreaves, Report of an Expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers (Washington, D.C, 1853). of October 28 trying to find enough water for their mules and hoping for rain. Clouds had appeared daily, but disappointed them. "It seems impossible for it to rain in this miserable country where every thing appears to be your enemy and is armed with a thorn or a poisonous sting," Dr. Wood-house lamented in his diary.53 Failing to find water, they pushed on, sending Leroux ahead to scout. "Should Leroux return without news of water, the prospect ahead is bad enough. We will have to leave everything," Kern noted, "take the strongest mules to pack provisions and try it afoot." But Leroux brought back good news. Yampais told him of water ahead, and two days later, on October 30, the expedition made camp near a stream lined with cottonwoods that Kern called the "Rito de los Yampais" (fig. 94). Today it bears a more prosaic name-Truxton Wash. Here, on November 1, they met the first resistance from Indians. "A little after breakfast," according to Kern, "the 172 |
