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Show 320 SIERRA MORENA OR CERBAT RANGE. belts of Castille, awls, and other implements that they obtain from Moqui. I saw no crops, and so I believe that they subsist on mezcal and game. I tarried to rest me for two days [ June 8 only]. June p. I went three leagues and a half northeast by the foot of a sierra that I named Sierra Morena; 5 8 Sierra Morena is of course the Cerbat range, already sufficiently indicated as the one first so called by Whipple in 1854. Morena means blackish or swarthy, and is doubtless GarceY rendering of what the Indians told him was their name for it- very likely the same Indian word that later became applied to the other range- the Black, with which the Cerbat runs parallel. On Beale's map the name stands " Cerbals," rather in the position of the Hualapai than of the Cerbat mountains proper. This word cerbat is said to be the Indian name of the wild sheep or bighorn, called carnero cimarron in Spanish. This is a very conspicuous range, culminating in a peak, about 7,000 feet high, called Cherum's from an Indian chief whom I knew in 1881- a venerable whiskey- soaker also called Sherum, Serum, or Srum. These mountains are crossed by two roads, both available for wagons; I have driven twice over the one which passes through Mineral Park, a mining town which was flourishing in 1881 under Cherum's peak; the other road crosses further south, through places called Stockton, Cerbat, and New London. Each of these passes is easily approached by the road coming northwest through Hualapai valley from Hualapai spring ( a place on the main wagon road between Mojave and Prescott or Fort Whipple); and Mineral Park is also reached by the road which comes due west across Hualapai valley from Hackberry ( a station on the railroad, a couple of miles from the original mining camp of Hackberry, near Peacock peak of the Peacock range). Now Ives says, p. 96, that when he left |
