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Show August 2 On the 2nd of August we continued northeast along the little more than a quarter-teague we same canyon, and at a We entered through a wooded canyon in which swung north. for a quarter -league's distance there is a scruboak thicket dense that in it four horses vanished from our sight while passing through, so look for them and though we that they path so had to make a halt in order to And found within a short time. in this thicket for its being little it went along the east side of the we were lost the later saw that its middle, and it is the same one runs through which arroyo which farther down we cal I Arroyo del Canjilon, a dry arroyo. Past the thicket there is a short plain of abundant pasturage and one very pleasant to see, because it produces certain if they a tint between purple and white which, rosettes used, we having are not carnations, very much are like those of the same color. of lemita, which is a red bead the size coolness and taste very similar to its of the blackthorn's, this in that so the lemon's, country it is regarded as its Besides this there is choke substitute for making cool drinks. the one of the val ley of Mexico, than I ler sma much cherry very and another tiny fruit called manazanita, the bush of which The is like the lemita's'but the leaf more like that of celery. the little fruit's size is almost that of ordinary chickpeas, There are also clumps and color white in some and black bittersweet but agreeable. in others, the taste a sharp Where the rosettes mentioned begin, the canyon Is split in There are trai Is two by a tal I mesa which enters it in this wise. the other west. and north of which one both of goes them, through of said mesa, southern the below and latter point the Where begins, the is a sma I I spring of good perennial flow; however, for to horse herds to drink even a little of it, it wi I I be necessary our continued day's dig waterholes. When the horses turned up we traveled a league march westward along the canyon and trail, having After going less than half a league and a quarter to the north. than three to the west, we swung northwest, and after a little more at an rest a to take arrived terrain we over travel there leagues' good Rio de la Cebol la, getting away from the channel we found plenty of stil I water, sunken its In trai I a bit. it with flows seldom it according to indications. for arroyo which is cal led EI From here about a we in the afternoon, to take up the trail set out quarter-league going up we had northward left. for We to the northwest, and after a little more than three leagues the edge of another of good terrain we stopped on a short plain and at for led EI Rio de las Nutrias; although it does not arroyo which is cal it apparently keeps it throughout have water running permanently, in banked ponds where beaver are said to breed. al I or most of the year turned Today eight leagues. -31- |
