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Show CHAPTER VIII. FROM MOJAVE TO MOQUI, JUNE, 1776. June 4. I ascended along the bank of the river and went two leagues northwest, arriving at the place observed on ray coming in 350 oi'. 1 June 5. I went one league north, and having crossed the river went down it half a league south. In the afternoon I traveled three leagues eastnorth-east* 1 See back, p. 234, date of Mar. 3, where we found this position in the immediate vicinity of modern Fort Mojave, but on the other ( west) side of the river. June 4 is GarceY 104th day's journey. 1 The crossing of the Colorado is to be taken at or near Fort Mojave. Hence Garces starts in Arizona on his tour to the Moquis, as memorable as that he has just made to the Tulares of California, his being the first such journey ever made by a white man. His present objective point is the settlement of the Yavasupai or Suppai Indians, who lived then as they do now in Cataract canon, where I visited them in June, 1881. In this and earlier years I traveled on horseback or by wagon through this whole region in several different directions, and am so familiar with the topography that we shall be able to trail Garc6s very closely. His route from Fort Mojave to Cataract canon is closely coincident with that traveled in 1858 by Lieu- 313 |