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packhorse to bring 1 out additional supplies. 

 Upon his return, he being absent about three and 

 one-half days, we packed our outfit, filed out of 

 the canon down the steep mountain side, travel- 

 ing to the southwest, out of the state of Chihua- 

 hua into the state of Sonora. Our object was to 

 look over the country thoroughly and make per- 

 manent camp wherever the country seemed most 

 promising. We camped one night on the Rio 

 Bonito and found innumerable game signs, so 

 that it looked like good country, but we pushed 

 on further, and camped that night at Three 

 Rivers. Here the rivers Chiuchupa, Bonito and 

 Rhine come together and form what is called 

 from there on the Bavespa. 



I was in favor of shifting back and hunting 

 the Rio Bonito, but Hi said it would be worth a 

 day's trip to go down to Bavespa River, the 

 country being very odd and interesting, with 

 occasional flats of great cane-brakes. If game 

 did not appear plentiful here we would at least 

 see the country and could then pull back to the 

 Bonito. Around the camp-fires that night I 

 learned something of the Indians of this section ; 

 there were the Yaqui Indians that lived mostly 

 on the western slopes of these mountains who 

 have been continually on the warpath and have 



