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Show 227 sheep, etc. and plenty of women. Before entering the cave we supplied ourselves with thirty candles and the Indian carried a bundle of dry grass to scatter along our path, so we should have no difficulty in retracing our steps-a wise precaution, as we afterward found.... We explored the cave a distance of 2,785 feet, by measurement with a tape line. We were unable to go farther for lack of light, as there were a great many angles and side chambers where we deemed it prudent to place lighted candles in order to find our way back. This was all the more necessary as we observed our guide was confused, and might easily be lost. In making a sharp curve he stopped, and throwing up his bands called out, "Lights ahead! See! Seel" We found we bad been following him in a large chamber, perhaps 250 feet wide, and be had got himself turned around and was doubling on himself, and the lights we saw ahead (ours of course) he supposed belonged to the people of the other world he told us about. This superstition probably remained strong as long as the Indians roamed freely across these valleys. James H. Martineau claimed as late as I89O, 'To this day, no Indian will venture to enter its gloomy recesses, fearing he may be spirited away as were the squaws."1 7 George W. Bean was an astute observer when it came to matters of this nature. He noticed that "great quantities" of clay had been removed from the cave, and he surmised that the large amount of ashes he found were from fires built to fire the clay or light the passage for its excavation. Broken clay pottery was frequently seen by the explorers as they traveled across the deserts; yet, the local Indians did not make or use pottery. These Paiutes informed Bean "that all such, as making pottery, mounds, inscriptions on rocks, and the like, were done by the Tribe of Moquis fSopisJ, in ages past. Indeed, all advanced evidences of industry are credited to that people, who were tbe old |