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Show 432 DESCRIPTION OF THE COLORADO. until the last of December. Its source it draws from the septentrional parts, and even in its beginnings did they assure me it was full of water ( caudaloso). This much is certain, that from the Yutas, who are on the north of the Moqui, unto its disemboguement in the Golfo de Californias, it gathers to itself no notable volume of water ( caudal); wherefore is it very likely that the greater part of its abundance comes from far beyond. 20 I have not been able to obtain more particular information about that, though I have solicited it; only that among the Yutas there unite with it two small streams ( riachuelos), 21 of which the one comes from the north and the other from the northeast; and among the Yabipais the Rio de San Pedro Jaquesila 22 which, though in times of snow- waters it is of some volume, when I passed it was dry ( cortado). Among " Mui adentro-" very much within," sc, the Yuta nation, or within those northern parts said; as is very true, considering the size of the Grand and the Green, which compose the Colorado. * To what streams Garces here alludes is quite uncertain. He can hardly mean by riachuelos the Green and the Grand, which compose the Colorado, for these are both great rivers. We may rather imagine that his stream from the north is the Rio Virgen or Virgin river, which flows south through Utah and a small corner of Nevada; and that the one from the northeast is the San Juan. " Garces* name of the Colorado Chiquito: note *, p. 354, June 28. |
