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Show 354 RI° JAQUBSILA OR RIO DE SAN PEDRO. June 27. I traveled four leagues southeast and east, passing most of the way through a lowland ( un bajio) toward the sierra of the Puerto de Bucareli; and we halted near an aguage at a place where there is a cave ( en un sitio de una cueba).** June 28. I traveled three and a half leagues on courses south, southeast, and east, and I arrived at the Rio Jaquesila, and I called it ( y le puse) the Rio de San Pedro. 86 It was running water enough, but very to where I suppose it to have been is the Red Horse spring already mentioned. " If this cave could be found it would clear up the otherwise obscure itinerary to- day. I can make nothing of it as it stands. If Garces continues S. £. and E., he is going toward the San Francisco mountains and thus away from his Sierra del Puerto de Bucareli. This cannot be; for he continues the same course to- morrow to the Colorado Chiquito, and could never strike it in this direction. I believe that he went N. E. and E. He must make some northing to strike the Colorado Chiquito where he does, in the vicinity of Moencopie wash, in order to get into Moqui on anything like the course he gives us as his route beyond. * Rio Jaquesila, otherwise Rio de San Pedro, is the Colorado Chiquito, the only large branch of the Colorado in northern Arizona. There is no doubt about this; and the text correctly runs it into the Colorado above the place where Garces named the Puerto de Bucareli: see also Font's map. But how he ever reached the river on any such courses and in any such distances as he gives, is another question. It is also uncertain at what point he struck it; though I give some reason ( beyond) for supposing the place to have been in the vicinity of the mouth |
