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Show RESEARCH AND INTERPRETATION D. E. Miller After examining that rugged trail down to the river's west bank, it is easy to understand how some of the animals would lose their footing and rol I part way. The wonder is that some of them did not plunge to their death on the rocks. Camp for the night was on a rocky shelf a few feet above the river current. The "tiny fruit" referred to was probably hackberries, according to Dr. Walter P. Cottam. It is difficult to understand why the two explorers failed to negotiate the canyon of Navajo Creek. During the 1950s--before Lake Powell waters inundated it--numerous persons hiked the 25 miles from the Colorado to Kaibito Creek fol reported lowing the floor of Navajo Creek major difficulties as he made no most of the way. that hike. Dr. A. Mortensen R. RESEARCH METHODS The same described for November 3. November 5 On the 5th we left San Carlos, no matter if Lucrecio had fai led to return, his brother Andres remaining behind with orders to wait for him until evening, and for him to try to overtake us tonight. We went along this western side and over many ridges and gul lies a league and a half to the north; we went down into a dry arroyo and very high-wal In it we sulphate. of copper it and by means of it shelf of soft (white) We kept on going and, led canyon where there was found a little-used trai I; out of the canyon, passing rock, difficult but capable of came a deal fol lowed we over a brief improvement. after we went a league and a quarter toward the north-northeast, found water, even though a I ittle, and enough pasturage; and since it was almost dark, we halted close to a high mesa, naming the place Santa Francisca Romana. Today three short leagues. Tonight it rained heavi Iy here, and it snowed in some places. raining at daybreak and kept it up for some hours. About six in the morning Andres Muniz arrived, saying that his brother had not turned up. This news caused us plenty of worry, because he had been three days without provisions and with no covering other than his shirt, since he had not even taken trousers along--for, eVen though he crossed the river on horseback, the horse swam for a long stretch and the water reached almost to the shoulders It was wherever it faltered. So when the mixed breed mentioned decided to and for look him for this reason, by fol lowing the tracks from go -169- |
