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Show SIERRA NAPAC SIGHTED AND NOTED. 353 runs to the west, rising at intervals ( d trechos) very high, and maintaining itself even at this season snowy. This sierra have I kept continually to the right;" and arising therefrom flows the Rio de la Asumpcion. This day they showed me on the road some tracks that trended northward, and told me that these were of the Yabipais Tejua, who take that way their journey to go to see and trade with their friends the Chemeguaba; those who live as already said on the other side of the Rio Colorado. In the afternoon we set forth all together, and having traveled four leagues southeast we camped for the night in pine woods.** as Kendrick's, Sitgreaves', and Bill Williams', mountains; Garc£ s has had these in plain view, on his right, ever since he reached Cataract canon, and even before that; and from the southern slopes of them flow the headwaters of the Rio de la Asumpcion, t. e., of the Verde or San Francisco river, a branch of the Gila system. This identifies the Sierra Napac; and no doubt Napac is merely the scribe's error for Napao, which Garces elsewhere uses, and which is the same word as Navajo. When and by whom the San Francisco mountains were first so named, and which of the two eminent saints of that name they were called for, has hitherto eluded my observation. I am under the impression that the name is a very old one. It is only within recent years that several of the peaks have been distinguished by name, as Agassiz, Humphreys, etc. * That is to say, in traveling eastward he is north of the San Francisco and Bill Williams' mountains, and so has them on his right * This camp cannot be set exactly. The nearest named place |