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Show PIPE SPRING. l iB piled from the horizon high into the heavens. At noon we pass along a ledge of chocol~te cliffs, and, taking out our sandwiches, we mai<.e a dinner a~ we riue along. Yesterday, our In d ian~ discussed for hours tho route which we should take. Thoro is uno way, furtl10r by ton or twelve milo~:~, with suro water ; anotber shorter, where water is found sometimes; thoir conclusion was that water would be found now; and this is the way we go, yet all day loug we at·e anxious about it. To be out t~o days, with only the water that can be carried in two small keg , is to have our animals suffer greatly. At five o'clock we como to the spot, and thoro is a ]mo-e water-pocket, containing sovoral barrels. What a relief I II01·e wo camp for tho night. September l n.- Up at day-break, for it is a long day's march to the next water. ·They say we must " run vory Lard" to roach it by dark. Our cour!:!e is to tho south. From Pipe Spring we can see a mountain, and I recognize it as tho one seen last summer from a cliff overlooking the Grand Canon; and I wish to roach tho river just LolJind tho mountain. 'rbere are Indians living in the group, of which it is tho Lighe~:~t, whom l wish to visit on the way. 'I'bese mountains are of volcanic origin, and wo soon como to ground that is covered with fi·agments of lava. 'rho way becomes very di fficult. vVe have to cross deep ravines, the heads of ca11ons that run into tho Grand Canon. It is curi us now to observe tho knowledge of our I ndian . Thoro is not a trail but what tboy k now; evory gulch and every rock seem~ familiar. I Jmve pricl d myself on being able to grasp and retain in my mind the topography of a country; but these Indians put me to shame. My knowledge is only general, embracing tho more impor tant features of a region that remains HS a map engraved on my miud; but theirs is particular. 'rlwy ]mow every l'OCk anJ ovory lodge, overy gulch and canou, and j ust wLore to wind among those to finu a pass; and their knowledge is unerring. They cannot describe a country to you, but they can tell you all tho particulars of a route. 1 havo but one pony lor tho two, and tlwy wero to rido ''turn about''; Lut 0/tu-ar'-'rtt-um-pcak, tl10 c]Jief, ri de!:!, and Sltuts, the one-oyocl, barelegged, merry-faced pin·my, walks, and points the way with a slender cane; then l eap~:~ and bound~ by the shor test way, and sits llown on a rock aud 15 COL |