Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14780529244)

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Title: Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864. dn United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. cn
Subjects: Indians of North America United States
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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the Big Canon ofthat river. In carrying out this order, Cardenas passed through Tusayan, or Moqui, and visitedthe Cascade, on the Little Colorado. No other river in North America passes througha canon equal in depth to the one alluded to. The description is made out with raretruth and force. We had a view of it from the San Francisco mountain, N. M., andjudging from our own elevation and the character of the intervening country, I haveno doubt the walls are at least 5000 feet m height. The desert country lying between Part I., Chap. 21. = Part I., Chap 9. Part I., Chap. 10. * Jamajas, or Mohaves, and Zuma-s. * Part I., Chap. 17. Part I., Chap. 11. This cascade is in about 111°, lat. 35° 25, and during my connection with Captain Sitgreaves ExploringExpedition in 1851, from Zuiii to the mouth of the Gila, I had an opportunity of visiting and sketching it.It consists of two falls over a vertical wall, the height of both being about 120 feet. 120 Hfl us 114 UL 11IJ lOB 30 e 102 .100 98
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J^J A .P of thermite ptirsiied \%y the expprawTi hy RICHARD H.K:ER>, 1853 . ■ ff-»i* ,)f nuiin- body of thejirmy.—_ ., „ Mfdiiui>r jyuix.to theltic del Tvuyn. and^ 6u3/ofCahfornia- ,. „ Don. liarti LopeLd*^ Caj-iituuLS,ti^ lUse^ajt (Motfui)arulAe.Rio delTi^zon .^^^^J^ntntu(Jiarex,.BraJ>a, anei Tutahaco.—i.. ., ofl)on Jhstan. d^^Ardlarui . -atrrinmanScSc: GENERAL HISTORY. 39 Moqui and the Big Colorado answers with equal truth to that described in the narrative.After travelling along the Big Canon for some days, this party returned to Cibola. In the summer of 1442, Don Tristan de Arellano ordered Caj^tain Francisco BarrioNuevo to ascend the river with some soldiers, in a northerly direction. Two provinceswere visited, that of Hemes (undoubtedly the present Jermz), and Yuque-Yunque;the latter probably being in the vicinity of Abequin. T