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Show RESEARCH REPORT D THE G. CLELL JACOBS REPORT September 8 set out from La Navidad de Nuestra Senora toward the north, went half a On the 8th crossing an we arroyo of league, good perennial water; then, steep incline, but without shelves and rock, we took a path--and better terrain than yesterday's--and after going two and a half leagues northwest among spreading hi I Is and some poplar where the guide groves, we reached a high ridge Si Ivestre pointed out to us the sierra on whose northern side dwel I the Yamparica Comanches, who the come to this one north of the Sabuaganas and are point of the same sierra where his own people the spot --on the western side with respect to cl imbing up a it to from where he showed us. ridge down an extremely places but without rock, and to the We descended in steep slope, rough of scrub oak and chokecherry wh i ch from slipping and go roll ing help prevent We entered an ample canyon of good terrain; down. with many clumps the mounts then, after going a league north41orthwest, counting the descent from the ridge, we turned north along it for a league and a half and halted so that the animals could drink--for a goodly amount of water which flows down from here, along the canyon route we took, either the afternoon the canyon; In underground or dries up. downstream on through going kept runs we after a league of travel west-northwest, handy because here the stopped has no by a qend with good pas any, longer arroyo we named Santa Delfina. which Today five turage we without water leagues. RESEARCH AND G INTERPRETATION • CI e I I J a cob s the DominQuet-Escalante Leaving the camp La Natividad de Nuestra Senora, The camp was situated on top of Brush Mountain north. traveled expedition This is high up on the Roan Plateau between Carr Creek and Brush Creek. trai Is for hundreds of years which had served as a thoroughfare of Indian time they were displaced before the coming of the Spanish and up to the sma I I in a valley that drains The camp was located from this territory. -88- |
