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Show 344 GARCES DETAINED PERFORCE. with the padres and Espanoles who would soon come to live on the Rio Colorado among those nations. So pressing was the insistency with which they urged me to remain in this rancheria that, as I found myself constrained perforce in this place, I had to remain five days; 22 during which they waited upon me and regaled me with flesh of deer and of cow, with maize, beans, quelites, 2* and mezcal, with all of which were they well provided. They also eat a berry of the perfectly dry; the trail was nearly a mile long, and it took us an hour to make our creepy way down. The Havasupai chief, who had been advised of our coming, was there to meet us with some of his men, all mounted; and he took us up the cation about five miles to a place where there was a scanty aguage, not sufficing for the wants of the whole party. Next morning we retraced our steps down the canon and kept on in its bed till we reached the wonderful blue spring above described and the rancheria of the Indians- a distance from last night's camp of about 25 miles, as we had struck the canon some 20 miles above the living water. On our way down we were shown a side canon on our right, up which was a plain trail. This led to the Moquis, and this is the way by which Garces is about to leave Cataract canon en route to his ulterior destination. n Fueran tantas las instancias que me hicieron en esta Rancheria para que me quedase, que enmedio de hallarme violento en aquel Parage me hube de detener cinco dias, etc. This detention was until June 25. nQueHte is the Nahuatl word quilitl, meaning grass or some edible herb, " greens," etc. Simeon's Nahuatl Diet, renders it Ugume frais in French. But exactly what quelites stands for in the above text is uncertain.- F. W. H. |