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Show HACKBERRY AND OTHER PLACES. 321 in the afternoon two and a half, in the same direction. I halted in a rancheria where they regaled us- the captain of the rancheria last passed, with an Indian of his nation, and a Jamajab who accompanied me, whom said captain assured that no one would do him harm. There is no water in this rancheria, and in order ( to procure some) to drink an Indian woman went for it two hours before dawn to the sierra, notwithstanding the weather was very cold. Railroad pass, " Ireteba took us north, for ten or fifteen miles along the eastern base of the Cerbat range, to an excellent grazing camp, but where there was only a small spring of sulphurous water." This is Bitter spring of his map, with camp mark " 63," and Isabel spring of modern maps: I know the spot, having been there twice. The two roads above noted, respectively from Hualapai spring and from Hackberry, come together close by Isabel spring. Garces says he went to- day six leagues, or about 16 miles, northeast, to a dry camp. If he went on that course, he followed precisely the line of the railroad, up the Hualapai valley; and his mileage sets him in the vicinity of present Hualapai station, on the western flank of the Peacock range. A dry camp is always hard to set, and the whole country thereabouts is usually dry; but I think we have him pretty closely. The nearest water I know of to Hualapai station is Peacock spring, a few miles in the mountains of this name; and I think this must be the place to which the squaw went for water, two hours before that cold gray dawn. If so, the sierra she climbed was not the Cerbat, but the Peacock range, on the eastern side of Hualapai valley. The location of GarceY dry camp here indicated also fadges well with what we have next to consider- his Arroyo de San Bernabe. |
