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Show OVER THE SIERRA DE SANTIAGO. 413 July 25. Having traveled two leagues southwest, I came upon the Sierra de Santiago, the which I passed over by the west and northwest, and found a watering- place that I named ( Aguage) de Santa Anna; and having gone one league and a half I reached the Rio Colorado; following down the course of which to a distance of yet other two leagues southward I arrived at the Punta de los Jamajabs. 26 Soon as these people saw me they ran to embrace me, leaped for joy, and knew not how to express their delight. They told me that already had their relations mourned for me, it having been reported to them that I had been killed at Moqui; and that they themselves had so notified the Cuercomaches, that Sacramento valley, and at the rancho where he stays to- night is still a couple of leagues northeast of the entrance to Union pass in the Black mountains. The Cuercomache watering- place of which he speaks is not identifiable; there are numerous springs in this vicinity, some of which are now known as Mud, Willow, Cottonwood, and Cane. * This appears to be about the position of Fort Mojave, a few miles above the locality which Garc6s formerly named San Pedro de los Jamajabs, as we see by what he says beyond, July 26. He seems to have struck the Colorado at Hardyville; whence it is most probable that he crossed the Black mountains - his Sierra de Santiago- by Union pass; though there is another way- a mere trail, not a road- over the mountains which also fetches out at Hardyville. If he made Union pass, his Aguage de Santa Anna is the well- known watering place in that pass. I never heard any other name for it, if it has one. |
