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Show August 4 On the 4th we set out northward from EI Paraje de la We went two l eaques through the same Santi sima Tri n i dad. forest, which consists of pines, some pinons, and scrub oak. It also abounds in pasturage and very tal I-growing flax, being fenced about by two large mesas, both of which by forming a semi-circle almost came together at their points, the first's narrow gap a sma I I northern and the second's southern one about a northwest We marched them. pass separating another where the'little and gap quarter-league passed through -- or begins, which we named Olivares, quarter-league in length and in width lake more or The waters less. even f it to dri nk. and which must be a yards, palatable, are two hundred if not very lake and sma I I gap we proceeded north for half a and swung to the northeast, leaving the traf I which qoes toward La PIedra Parada (site known to our people who have traveled through here), and The guides directed us through a sagebrush stretch without path or trai I whatsoever, saying that From the league three very troublesome inclines on the trai I we leaving, and that it was less direct than the straight there were were way we were We went taking. a little more than a league, and on the same sagebrush stretch turned to the west-northwest; we again entered the forest (which continues), and at half a league We traveled three leagues and a through a narrow val ley most richly abounding with pastures, and arrived at a very spacious meadow of the arroyo which along the said trail of La Piedra Parada they cal I EI Belduque. On the meadow we swung to the west, and after going two, leagues down the arroyo we halted in a canyon which, on account of a certain incident, we named EI Canon del Engano. and a nine quarter. There is plenty of ponded Today leagues water here, and pasturage. we took to the northwest. half W. INTERPRETATION RESEARCH AND Alan Minge Trinidad the trail rounds the northernmost de la Laguna past Sawmill and Tecolote Canada the up This portion of the route is inaccessible except on foot or by horse. mesas. THe explorers then passed through a narrow gap and arrived on the banks of Laguna It is in a secluded val ley of the de Olivares which is now cal led Horse Lake. The Jicarilla Apache Reservation and can be reached with a little ingenuity. From EI of the three narrow pass Paraje mesas just de and la ·Santisima moves south of Horse Lake forms -34- a distinctive part of the landscape. |
