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Show which was ruggedly steep in places; then, after one league 'of travel to the northeast, and another to the east, we were overtaken by a Tabehuachi Yuta, who in al I that we had trav was the first one we had seen a high hi I I now (since the first day's march from EI In de Pueblo Abiquiu when we encountered two others). order to talk with him at leisure, we halted near the and beginning of the water source where we had rested, We gave him some here we named it La Fuente de la Guia. unti I eled thing to eat and to smoke, and afterward through the interpreter we asked him various questions about the We also asked land ahead, the rivers and their course. him where the Tabehuachis, Muhuachis, and Sabuaganas were. At first he denied knowing anything, even the country where he I ived. However, after he had lost some of the fear and suspicion with which he conversed with us, he said that the Sabuaganas were all in their own coun try and that soon we Tabehuachis wandered would be meeting them; that the throughout this scattered about sierra and its surroundings; that the rivers, from that San Pedro to the one of San Rafael inclusive, flow into the Dolores, and the latter joins with the Navajo. of suggested to him that he might want to guide us as far as the encampment of a Sabuagana chieftain whom our interpreter and others said was very ond of the Spaniards He consented on condition and knew much of the country. next unti I for him waited we that day in the afternoon; We agreed to wait for him, both to acquire him as a guide and lest he came to suspect something of us which would disturb him and the rest. Today six leagues. We RESEARCH AND R.W. INTERPRETATION the many turns of the San Their to ascend the Uncompahgre Plateau. Because of Delaney ahd Robert McDaniel Miguel River, the padres decided route was generally parallel to Highway 90. Here they found sufficient water in the sma I I creeks and good pasturage for the livestock. Although the going was comparatively for Cot walt the return of the Ute Indian. and easy, they decided to camp because the area area in the of water the best tonwood Creek is permanent it drains. They went generally northeast and east from Cottonwood Creek and then reached it again near its source and camped there in order to have Colorado time to talk to the Ute Indian. RESEARCH' METHODS We continued Plateau just as along Colorado Highway 90 which cl imbs the Uncompahgre We expedition did at the point where the river bends. the -60- |
