1 898] On Katzimo 



course, the advantage in several respects, as Major 

 Pradt had already made the ascent and was there- 

 fore familiar with the necessary details. Our party, 

 however, was the larger — containing, moreover, a 

 child of six and a man of eighty. 



The top of Katzimo is rough and bare of soil, as 

 I have said, with only a few weedy plants and some 

 scrubby half-dead cedars by way of vegetation. 

 From it the view is superb; to the south, Acoma, 

 westward the dark mass of the Mesa Prieta, and in 

 the north the green dome of San Mateo, the highest 

 mountain in New Mexico. 



Moving about, we at once picked up various Trophies 

 Indian relics, indisputable proofs of former oc- ^'''"^ ^*' 

 cupancy — among them eight arrowheads, seven 

 shells which must have come from the Gulf of 

 California and were apparently part of a necklace, 

 a blue turquoise pendant, and two agate chips 

 used in making arrowheads, besides beads and a few 

 fragments of broken pottery.^ The large cairn of 

 stones noted by Hodge and obviously set up by 

 man could neither be overlooked nor mistaken, 

 though to me it alone bore no evidence of antiquity. 

 Lummis, burdened as usual with his heavy camera, 

 took a number of photographs, thereby adding to his 

 already enormous stock of records of the Southwest. 



Going down was about as ticklish as going up, Safeiy 

 but we all reached the bottom safely, having on ^°"''' 

 that twenty-second day of June, 1898, brazenly 

 flouted the gods, and thus once more, as it were, 

 ** disenchanted" the Enchanted Mesa. 



As a naturalist I was interested in the local animal 



1 Figured in "Three Weeks in Wonderland" by Charles F. Lummis; The 

 Land of Sunshine, August, 1898. 



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