WATER TRAILS OF THE CERISO 



ered outside to furnace blackness. Around 

 the spring, where must have been a gath- 

 ering place of the tribes, it is scored over 

 with strange pictures and symbols that 

 have no meaning to the Indians of the pre- 

 sent day ; but out where the rock begins, 

 there is carved into the white heart of it a 



FIG. 2. 



pointing arrow over the symbol for dis- 

 tance and a circle full of wavy lines (Fig. 

 2) reading thus : " In this direction three 

 [units of measurement unknown] is a 

 spring of sweet water ; look for it." 

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