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Show quarter, making several turns impassable terrain, either because of so gues and a precipices rock-cliff the that are here. over almoSi rock or One of them and made us back much horses to be injured, mi Ie and descend to another meadow of the We crossed it by breaking through a bosque of river. osier and tal I bamboo-reed, and at half'a league swung for the northwest by taking the channel bed of an arroyo caused one track about for our of our a route, ascending the sierra and leaving EI Rio de San Cosme behind. We continued we knew no other it into a the arroyo, which led us before on both sides with narrow and tal I through canyon, negotiable ground than the arroyo's channel bed. Halfway up the canyon there is another arroyo which comes We continued northwest throuqh the one from north to south. following, and after qo I nq four leagues, which with the many windings came to be west-northwest, we got 6ut of the canyon---which we named Las Golondrinas for there being such symmetry many nests of these birds in it, bui It with Then we continued over that they looked like tiny pueblos. a sageb rush stretch of good +crr-e in, and at ha I f a league's going west-northwest we swung west by going up a gradual we hi I I with some tree growth; then, after descend i ng l+ I-beaten started over a plain across which a wei path goes we _ were , from north to south. high ridge, rocky named San Eustaquio, steep having traveled two and a half leagues west. This water source is perennial and copious, and there is abundant pasturage by it. We arrived very tired, both on account of the day's march's painful travel and because a very cold west wind did not cease blowing very hard al I day long. Today ten leagues. At the and RESEARCH AND 1 plain's end to the water INTERPRETATION we descended source which by a we Jerome Stoffe I and George E. Stewart The trai I for this day started out clearly enough with a c l imb ovar Purp Ie tv1esa and into Strawberry Canyon now covered by the waters of Starva tionReservoir. One can go a short distance up the canyon before encountering the damsite and catch a momentary glimpse of the cliffs that beset the clear why the Spaniards should have The valleys now hidden under water. struggled answer seems to lie in the fact that they were soon to leave the river by way of Rabbit Gulch. But why Rabbit Gulch? travelers. it is not at al I those cliffs and marshy But at first around Wrestling with the diary descriptions, maps, and the visible terrain about, we concluded that Silvestre guided them through the difficult terrain of Pul ley Bend unti I they broke through the marshes and thickets into what Escalante describes as "the channel bed of an arroyo ascending the sierra and leavin EI Rio de San Cosme behind." Stewart recal Is that round .•. -108- |
