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Show RESEARCH REPORT G THE W. L. G. RUSHO AND C. CRAPTON REPORT October 16 left San Donulo with the intention of but shortly after continuing south as far as EI Rio Colorado, and turning around behind us; we set out we heard people shouting Indians saw eight we came sounds from, to see where the repeated left. we had just the at bluffs ittle point 1 stopping atop the middle, extending almost al I These are situated on the 16th On the we plain's mica. the way across it and abounding in transparent gypsum and was going We went back to them, ordering the interpreter, who the base of the bluff, and reached We also. come to ahead, advised them to come down without fear because we came in peace and were friends. halt and talked for more than two hours and a half or three hours. They told us that in two days we would that we could not go by the route we but Rio reach EI Grande, intended because there were no water sources, nor could we this route for its being very much boxed the river We made a by cross in and very deep, and having extremely tal I both sides; along river there was very individual and each large all-purpose knives, string of white glass beads. two cl iffs rocks and and finally, that between here and the We presented them with bad terrain. with a suggested to them that, the river, we would to lead us to wanted them of if anyone would that answered go along and set us him. they They pay on our way through a canyon which lay at the mesa east of since the plain, and that from there we could make it alone, they were We did not want to no we very far. could not walk barefoot and matter what this Then give up information; for toward the river, suspected that the Moquis south going we to be at odds with the Cosninas for their having escorted Padre Garces to them, and that they, fearing that we had tried again bring other Padres and Spaniards into Moqui, might have come might to restrain them with these ones were now threats--and trying to lead the us news astray having spread about, so that we would But Jomajabas. not reach the Cosninas or their neighbors, our whom to the revealing at the insistence of al I companions, to take the suspicion did not suit us at present, we consented canyon route. -145- the |
