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Show Figun:~ :J!J.-1\iu- lwou'- tu - woz~p V1li1ou. MU-KOON'-TU-WEAP OAN"ON. 111 September 12.-0nr course, for the last two days, through Pa-ru' -nu-weap Canon, was directly to the west. Another stream comes down from the north, arid unites just hero at Schunesburg with the main branch of the Rio Virgen. W o <le~ermine to spend a day in the exploration of this stream. The Indians call the canon, through which it runs, Mu-koon'-tu-weap, or Straight Canon. Entering this, we have to wade up stream; often the water fills the entire channel, and, although we travel many miles, we find no floodplain, talus, or broken piles of rock at the foot of the cliff. rrhe walls have smooth, plain faces, and are everywhere very regular and vertical for a thousand feet or more, where they seem to break back in shelving slope to higher altitudes; and everywhere, as we go along, we find springs bursting out at the foot of the walls, and, passing these, the river above becomes steadily smaller; the great body of water, which runs below, bur ts out from beneath this great bed of red sandstone; as we go up the canon, it comes to be but a creek, and then a brook. On the western wall of tho canon stand some buttes, towers, and high pinnacled rocks. Going up tho canon, we gain glimpses of them, here and there. Last summer, after our trip through the cafions of the Colorado, on our way from the mouth of tho Virgen to Salt Lake City, these were seen as conspicuous landmarks, from a distance, away to the southwest, of sixty or seventy miles. 'J:'hese tower rocks are known as the Temples of the Virgen. Having explored this canon nearly to its head, we retmn to Schunesburg, arriving quito late at night. Sitting in camp this evening, Ghu-ar'-ru-um-pealc, the chief of the Kai'vav- its, who is one of our party, tells us there is a tradition among the tribes of this country, that many years ago a great Hght was seen somewhere in this region by the Pa-ru'-sha-pats, who lived to the southwest, and that they supposed it to be a signal, kin<ll~d to warn them of the approach of the Navajos, who live beyon<l the Colorado River to the cast. Then other signal fires were kindled on the Pine Valley Mountain, Santa Clara Mountains, and U-in-ka-ret Mountain~, so that all the tribes of Northern Arizona, Southern Utah, Southern Nevada, and Southern California were warned of the approaching danger; but when the Pa-ru' -slta-pats came nearer, they discovered that it was a fire on one of tl1.e great Tomples; and then they |