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Show 342 EDITOR'S TRAIL TO THE CANON. in other nations. In spite of this I had no fear, seeing all well content at my arrival, and that they embraced with pleasure the peace proposed with their that of Garces, nor yet so precipitate as Mr. Egloffstein's- but it was enough to make my head swim. I reached the brink of the chasm at an entirely different place, some 20 miles higher up; and as this point is not marked in any way on any map I know of, my little- known trail may be worth recording here. In June, 1881, I was the medical officer of an expedition to the Havasupais- or, as they were sometimes then called, the Agua Azul Indians- a name supposed to be derived from the blue water above mentioned, but really a wrenching into Spanish of Yavasu- pai, which is the same word as Garces* Jabesua. The party consisted of a detachment of Company K, 6th Cavalry, Lieut. H. P. Kingsbury, under command of Lt.- Col. Wm. Redwood Price; the Lieutenant Palfrey mentioned before; with an old Arizonian scout, whose name I have forgotten, to show us the way. We went from Fort Verde, on the river of that name, to Fort Whipple and Prescott, and thence through Williamson's and Chino valleys, in which latter we camped at Roger's ranch, June 4. Next day we flanked the west base of the Picacho and followed an Indian trail to Cullen's well, as it was called, near the base of Mt. Floyd. The proper name of this tinaja or tank is Kerlin's- so called from Beale's clerk of 1857- 58, F. E. Kerlin, whose name is cut in the rocks. It is on the Beale road, but hard to find, at the head of a ravine, and is not living water. On the 6th we sought unsuccessfully for Kisaha tank, and returned to Kerlin's. On the 7th, with a detour eastward along the Beale road, and then a turn northward past that other elevation which is 6 miles due N. of Mt. Floyd and about 7,000 feet high, we kept on north with some westing to what was known in those days as Black tank, but is now lettered Wagathile tank on the U. S. G. S. maps. This was a stretch of some 30 miles, |