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Show RESEARCH METHODS With the assistance of Mr. spent some time hiking principal problem was the we over Creek Valley use approximate route toward Toquervi I Ie. of maps and compass, The of the trai I. This site was checked route in order 'to make the distance traveled before leaving correspond to the diary. We thought at first the route from both directions Ash Vickstrom and the the taken by the highway (State 15) might have been the course of travel, but the passes to the south of the highway seem more likely from the de scription and ease of travel. October 15 Hugolino along the river's along slope of some adjacent hi I Is, and after going south-southwest for two leagues and a half we Here we found returned to the river's edge and poplar grove. a we:ll-constructed primitive pergola with plenty of ears and Close to it on shocks of maize which had been placed on top. On the 15th west side and we left San the the brief bottoms and bank of the river were three fields with their wei I-dug irrigation ditches. sma I I maize We continued south downstream, and after going half a league swung to the southwest, getting away from the river, a tal I than a but. embankment without any descent made us backtrack more quarter of a league unti I we returned to the river, which here flows southwest. Here two other tiny rivers enter it, one which comes from the north-northeast, and the other from the east. The latter consists of hot and sulphurous waters, for which we named it Rio Sulfureo. Here there is a beautiful grove of black poplars, some wil low trees, and rambling vines of wild Over the space where we backtracked there are ashgrape. strewn areas, veins and other mineral indications, and many rocks smeared with mica. We crossed EI Rio del Pi lar and EI Sulfureo near where they join, and going south we climbed a low mesa between out croppings of black and shiny rock. After climbing it, we got onto good open country, crossed a brief plain which' has a chain of very tall mesas to the'east, and to the west hi I Is with sage On the plain we brush (what in Spain is heather), and red sand. could have taken the edge of the cliffs and ended our day's march on good and level land, but those who were going ahead changed course in order to fol low some fresh tracks of Indians, and they where our us over the hi I Is and low sandy mounts became very much exhausted. took -141- places mentioned, |
