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Show 324 OR YAMPAI CREEK. habited rancheria in which my companions set fire to a wickiup ( xacdl,) in order to ascertain if there were any Indians about; but seeing that none appeared we continued on the same course. At a little distance a companion saw at the foot of a tree two small boys, who were reluctant to show themselves, through fear. We asked them where their father was; they gave us to understand that soon would he come, as in fact he did, together with his wife, about ten o'clock of the following day [ June I T ] , both showing themselves much pleased. Presently this Indian begged me for my mule, in order to bring in a buro or large deer7 which he had left dead. It is admirable, the reciprocity ( cor-respondencia) with which the gentiles, whenever they Yavapai, the name of a tribe of Indians with which the reader is already familiar. Whipple, was never quite so far north as this point; and here also we can dismiss both Beale and Sitgreaves, but keep company with Ives, in taking Garces on to his next station- as we do by rail, very comfortably. T Buro 6 venado grande. Buro or bura is Garces' style for burro, a word almost English as the name of the little donkeys so well known in the Southwest. The deer here so called is Cariacus macrotis or Odontocalus hemionus, the common mule deer or black- tailed deer of the west, the largest of its genus in North America, with immense ears like a donkey's, whence the name. It also has a white tail tipped with black, short and slim except the tuft at the end, like the tail of a mule shaven into the shape the drivers consider stylish. |
