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Show 340 TO THE HAVASUPAI VILLAGE. arrived at the place of our stopping for the night, and as I saw the Jabesua Indians well supplied with some pieces of red cloth, I suspected therefrom that they strange people of his Rio Jabesua. His Indians then took his animals back, and brought them in by an easier trail, more eastwardly, which follows down another side canon into Cataract canon at a point a few miles above the Havasupai settlement. Lieutenant Ives did not follow Mr. Egloffstein; but, having extricated him from his predicament by hauling him up the remaining piece of the shattered ladder by means of slings from the soldiers' muskets knotted together, he beat a retreat in good order. His subsequent route is nowhere near that of Garces, till both reach the Moqui villages. In taking leave of him here I must note that, accurate as his map is for the whole region he actually explored, it is quite the reverse in all that he lays down for the course of the Grand canon in the parts he never saw. This is all hypothetical, and far out of the way. Thus he sends the main Colorado off through something that appears to correspond to Kanab wash, and brings the Colorado Chiquito clear westward, approximately in the course of the Grand canon itself, to join Cataract canon! This error of at least one whole degree of longitude, as well as the wrong confluence, was reflected on maps for many years, till the actual junction of the Colorado Chiquito with the main stream was properly determined, about long. I I I ° 47' 30". The Cataract canon system is of great extent; its ramifications, Assuring the great Colorado plateau in every direction, and as it were dissecting the surface of the earth, may be traced to the vicinity of Bill Williams' mountain and Mt. Sitgreaves. The general trend of the system is northwest, but the collateral fissures run in every direction. This is an effectual barrier to travel east and west, almost to the head of the system, across which Beale made his wagon road in 1857, at no point north |