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Show 346 DEPARTURE FROM RIO JABESUA. Rio Jabesua, which arises in the labyrinth of caxones there are in every direction; the course it here takes is to the westnorthwest and north, and at a little distance 21 it falls into the Rio Colorado. This is a river of middling size but very rapid, and the Jabesuas utilize it well with many dams and ditches. June 25. I set forth 28 accompanied by five Indians, and traveled two leagues south and east, now on horseback, now on foot, but in both these ways with great exertion, and halted on the slope of the sierra at a scanty aguage. In the afternoon I finished the most difficult part of it ( the ascent)- they cause horror, those precipices it presents- and thereafter traveling north over good ground, with much grass, 97 The air- line distance is about 15 miles, and the actual distance not much more, as the creek runs pretty straight, a little west of north, to the confluence with the Colorado at about lat. 360 16'. The tiny Suppai Indian reservation is on and near lat. 360 05', long. 1120 47' ( Executive Orders of June 8, 1880; Nov. 3, 1880; and Mar. 31, 1882). The original survey of the settlement was made for this purpose by Lieutenant C. F. Pal-, frey, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., June 11- 13, on the expedition of 1881 which I have already described in part. * Garces starts from the Havasupais to go to the Moqui Pueblo of Oraibi, in the Province of Tusayan. His air- line course would be almost due east- a very little south of east The air- line distance is about 112 miles; but no such straight line is possible, owing to the nature of the ground Yet his laps foot up altogether only 41 leagues, or about 107 miles, and he goes winding about a good deal. Hence it is obvious that |