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Show November 6 On the 6th, after it had stopped Francisca headed northeast, and after were we stopped for a long time by a raining, we left Santa had gone three strong bl izzard and we leagues tempest consisting of rain, thick hailstones, amid horrendous We recited the Virgin's thunder claps and lightning flashes. for us, and God wi I led rei lef for her to some Litany, implore for the tempest to end. We continued east for half a league, and halted near the river because it kept on raining and some rock cliffs blocked our way. We named the Ferrer. Today three leagues and a half. Don Juan Pedro Cisneros here, river and came was hereabouts, back to if the see ford lay around how very wide the report having and that he did not think it was deep seen it only inspect it to ford the river, and they came back saying that everything We did not give much credence to difficult to negotiate. according to the current, through a nearby canyon. and was te latters' next report, and day along but that we could get to ' We sent two others to so we decided to examine with Don Juan Pedro Cisneros. the mixed breed arrived with RESEARCH AND went to place San Vicente the said Lucrecio. D. INTERPRETATION E. it ourselves Before night came Miller stormy campsite of November 5 was on or near the regular Indian ford, although Escalante does not mention this fact. After circling the south end of Ramona Mesa the trai I led toward Gunsight Canyon. Probably on the west bank of that gulch the storm broke with al I its fury, most likely sending a flash flood down Gunsight Canyon and causing the party to stop unti I the storm and flood cleared. At any rate, (which is not too difficult at that point) the once across Gunsight Canyon of Gunsight Butte and camped within a mi Ie of the end south skirted padres the Colorado just southeast of the butte's base on the west side of Padre Creek but not in sight of either it or the Colorado. The trai I to the river river ford went by way of Gunsight Pass tip of Gunsight Butte. The pass is just wide The trai I through the pass enough for animals to go through single fi Ie. crossed Padre Creek on dry ground a quarter of a mi Ie above the main springs that supply that creek's regular flow, and arrived at the floor of Padre from the east bank where the creek's floor is more easi Iy reached than from But thB padres did not go that way. the west bank. The main rather than Indian trai I skirting to the the south -171- |
