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Show Vol . 2-4 , Page 272 June 22 , 1854 MOR.d\LITY By the re ort of the late explorin the face of the earth by disease . :o, G IE kO \,ULS I...1JJL S . party ; these peoule .have been nearly st1ept from ·.hen Lieut . Uhip:-ile reached the Colorado Chi qui to , at a :point about one hundred and fifty miles west of the old Pueblo of Zuni , his guides informed him they were unacquain ted wit'. the country beyond, and advised him to seek uides fro 11 among the 1:oquis , who lived some t of the Zuni guides cheerfull y departed for the ee hundred miles to the 1Jorth . Two r oqui country , while the co~mnand , with Louis Leroux for a guide , continued on for thirty miles , where it was expected the new guides vould meet them . The Zunians returned to camp alone , bringing the sad intelli - gence that the whole I. oqui Nation had been swept off by the s mall eral villages , built upon me sas and high table rocks but one wol'lar and child alive . l)OX . There are sev- In one village they found So rreat was the mortality that there ere no burials . The dead bodies •,1ere tlll'own from the mesas and lay in putrid he~ s abo t the bases . 00 great ms the stench that the guides nearly perished ere they could c·et away .-- |
