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The Romance of the Colorado River

CHAPTER IV
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As yet no white man had been north of Moki in the Basin of the Colorado, and the only source of information concerning the far northern region was the natives, who were not always understood, however honestly they might try to convey a knowledge of the country.
* This is a quadrangular mass of sandstone about a mile long, thirty-five miles east of Zuni.

On its base at the eastern end are a number of native and European inscriptions, the oldest, of the European dates according to Simpson, being 1606, recording a visit by Onate.

The rock, or, more properly, mesa, is also called the Morro.Chas.

F.Lummis has also written on this subject.
Skirting the southern edge of the beautiful San Francisco Mountain region, through the superb forest of pine trees, Onate finally descended from the Colorado Plateau to the headwaters of the Verde, where he met a tribe called Cruzados, because they wore little crosses from the hair of the forehead, a relic, no doubt, of the time when Alarcon had so freely distributed these emblems among the tribes he encountered on the Colorado, friends probably of these Cruzados.

The latter reported the sea twenty days distant by way of a small river running into a greater, which flowed to the salt water.


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