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Show THIS IS THE COLORADO CHIQUITO. 355 dirty and red, that could not be drunk; but in the pools of the border of the river there was good water. This river runs to the westnorthwest, and unites with the Rio Colorado a little before this passes through the Puerto de Bucareli. The bed of this river, as far as the confluence, is a trough of solid rock ( un foso en pena viva), very profound and wide about a stone's throw, and on that account impassable even on foot; wherefore with much travail did I enter into said bed of the river, following down a trough not so profound, of Moencopie wash, which joins the Colorado Chiquito from the N. E. The river is one of the discoveries of 1540, when Coronado or some of his men first called it Rio del Lino- a name which, either in the Spanish form or translated Flax river, it has borne on many maps almost to the present day. It was common down to the surveys of the so's, though in my earliest Arizona days of 1865 it had been mostly supplanted by the term Colorado Chiquito. As I say elsewhere, the name Colorado or Red seems to have been first attached to this river in 1604, by Juan de Onate, and been subsequently transferred to the main stream; but when the term Colorado Chiquito or Little Colorado was first applied I do not know. Some have supposed Coronado's name Rio Vermejo to belong here; it may have been sometimes so used, but its proper and original application was to Zuni river, a branch of this one. GarceV term San Pedro I do not think ever had any vogue for this stream; his other name, Jaquesila, occasionally appears in print, also in the forms Jaquevila, Jaquecila, etc. It is curious to note the similarity of Jaquesila to Hah- qua- si- il- la, given in Whipple's Report as a Yuman name of the Gila. See further regarding the Colorado Chiquito in Pike, ed. 1895, pp. 730, 731. |