Seven miles farther on, they went through a small canyon where another range is severed.
This was called Purple Hill Pass, while the first one was named Explorer's Pass, after the steamer.

The first approach to a real canyon was encountered a short distance above.

Emerging from this, called Canebrake, from some canes growing along the sides, the Explorer ran aground, resting there for two hours.

They had now passed through the Chocolate Mountains, the same range that Alarcon mentions, and as he records no other he probably went no farther up than the basin Ives is now entering, the Great Colorado Valley.

Alarcon doubtless proceeded to the upper part of this valley, about to latitude thirty-four, where he raised the cross to mark the spot.