On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garces (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776; translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manscript, and ed., with copious critical notes

On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776; translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manscript, and e - Page 105

CHAPTER X. FROM MOQUI TO MOJAVE, JULY, 1776. I set forth accompanied by the whole retinue until I was outside the pueblo, where, they having taken leave of me, I began my return by the very route of the entrada. I soon lost my way among the sandy places and the small peach orchards, without being able to find a sign of the small spring of water that I had seen on my coming. I found a small well { pozito) whence with great fatigue, now afoot and now on tnuleback, I was able to make the ascent of the mesa, on whose smooth surface I saw some junipers, which were the only ones I had seen this side of the Rio Jaquesila. I found the place of descent after many turnings, and soon lost myself again, taking the road that goes to the Yutas1 who live north of Moqui and 1 Instead of continuing on the road by which he had come, past the small spring, Garces wandered to the right, and fetched up in a recess at the well which is about 2]/ 2 miles from Oraibi, under the bluff. There he had to climb the mesa again, follow it a little ways, and descend again from it to the plain below. Here he kept to the right too far, and got on to " the road that goes to the Yutas," northward with little westing. 393