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Show examine a portion of Upon reaching the Dolores again we could actual the to not campsit. could this day but get we Cajon del Yeso, out of EI got for 20 August On the 20th the trail we crossed backtracking one league to the southeast; a about which of the river again, east-northeast little some on we bluffs, saw, quarter-league away After outcroppings of very good transparent gypsum. wide a entered we ravine, very crossing the river and over wei I-beaten trail a tal I we which traveled foot of a the east-northeast. Then, Don Bernardo Miera who did mesa at the not goes toward the leagues to three importunitias'of fol favor lowing this high interpreter course, we so and incl finding expected rocky ine, rough ourselves forced to backtrack from half-way up; for the mounts were being so much abused that many of them were marking the spoor on the stones with the blood which these were drawing from their hind We climbed it with the most trying and fore feet. end of several northbound hours, the and at labor after having gone about a quarter-league in the ascent, we traveled a mile northwest atop the crest. And from here we saw that the trai I went along the base of the mesa, and over good and entirely level took fndres the us over a terrain. is extensive and without than three quarters of went north for We continued northeast a little more In the stone, we descent, more league. than a league a which over small sagebrush stretch where there prickly-pear cactus; and to avoid a lot of a the trouble which this caused the mounts we entered the box channel of an arroyo; then, after going was league to the east, we unexpectedly plenteous water source of good water, upon that which banks up when it rains, of consisting This we named San Bernabe. and from a tiny spring. through it for a a came As the trai Is and the ruins of huts hereabouts camping site, and to it left on climbing that im We halted here even though the passable incline. pasturage is not very abundant after having traveled six leagues today (not counting the back tracki ng) it indicate, comes is the trail a we Yuta had • RESEARCH AND R.W. INTERPRETATION From their campsite at Cajon del Delaney and Robert McDaniel Yeso the members of the -62- expedition |
