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Show 408 BURIED ALIVE IN CATARACT CANON. merriment, and for that did they repeat ( the names), asking me, u And I- what do you call me too? " xs Whereat I went about, calling every one of them by the name of some saint, of which names each one learned his own, and they set themselves to recite all that they had been taught. This served me to divert the melancholy that it caused me to see myself buried alive in that calaboose ( calabozo) of cliffs and canons, after having encountered such rebels at the Moquis; at the same time by this means increasing the gusto of the Indians, likewise their affection for the things of God. July 15 [ misdated " dia 16"]. I set forth on the west, albeit against the will of the Indians, who counseled me that I should return by the way of the ladder; 1T but I having looked to see if perchance there were some other more commodious exit, insisted that they should take me by the way the beasts had de-w " Y por eso repetian preguntandome y yo como? " 17 Garces would not essay the ladder again- see note M, p. 33*> - but insisted on taking the trail by which the mules were brought down on the former occasion, June 20. In this way he surmounted a flat bench which he estimated to be ( as the future tense, " shall have," shows) a quarter of a league long; and finally escaped from Cataract canon through the same side-canon by which he first entered it- the " New Canfran." He . goes altogether to- day about 12 miles, mostly south, but to some point he does not specify. |