14 THE SERI INDIANS 



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both sides of Babia Kuukaak aud El Intiernillo. Some of these bad 

 been occupied almost to the hour of the visit, but the occujjauts 

 had taken flight, leaving most of their unattached possessions behind, 

 and were not seen, though it was evident that, like wary birds and 

 game animals, they kept the invaders in sight from points of vantage 

 and hidden lairs. The eastern scarjjs and foot-slopes of Sierra Kunkaak 

 were traversed extensively and repeatedly; its crest was crossed by 

 Mr Johnson with a small party at a point west of Punta Narragansett, 

 and the triangulation and topographic sketching were connected with 

 the work on the mainland and carried over practically the entire sur- 

 face of the island, being tied to the work of the Hydrographic Office 

 about the coasts. Then, despairing of finding the wary natives, and 

 having exhausted food supplies, the party returned to the mainland 

 and thence to Gosta Rica, arriving in the evening of December 31. 



The original party comprised, in addition to the leader, Mr Willard 

 D. Johnson, topographer; Mr J. W. Mitchell, photographer; Hugh 

 Norris, Papago interpreter, aud Jose Oontrares, teamster. The party 

 engaged in the expedition to Sierra Seri comprised the leader, Messrs 

 Johusou and Mitchell, Mr L. K. Thompson of Hermosillo, Don Andres 

 Noriega of Costa Eica, Jose Oontrares, and two Papago Indian guards, 

 Miguel and Anton, of Oosta Kica. The Tiburon party was made up of 

 the leader, Messrs Johnson and Mitchell, S. 0. Millard of Los Angeles, 

 and Senores Andres Noriega and Ygnacio Lozania, together with 

 Euperto Alvarez, a Yaqui Induin guard, and Miguel, Anton, Mariana, 

 Anton Ortiz, and Anton Castillo, Papago guards; while Hugh Norris 

 and Jose Oontrares, with half a dozen Papago guards and other 

 attaches of the rancho at Costa Eica, maintained an intermittent sup- 

 ply station at Embarcadero Andrade. Sefior Encinas cooperated in 

 the work of the expedition, part of the time at Oosta Eica and part at 

 Molino del Encinas, his principal hacienda in the outskirts of Hermo- 

 sillo; while Mr Thompson and Dr W. J. Lyons aided in the work, the 

 former at both Hermosillo and Costa Eica and the latter at Hermosillo. 



The return trip from Costa Eica lay via Hermosillo, and permitted 

 the extension of the plane-table surveys to this longitude. While at 

 the city advantage was taken of the opportunity to obtain linguistic 

 and other data from "El Oeneral" Kolusio, a full-blood Seri retained 

 at the capital by the State for occasional duty as a Seri interpreter, 

 who was obligingly assigned to the service of the party by Seuor 

 Don Eamon Corral, then governor of Sonora. At Hermosillo the 

 leader of the expedition left the main party, which then proceeded 

 northwestward and northward along the route followed by the 1<S9J: 

 expedition on the return journey, the party comprising Mr Johnson, in 

 charge, with Messrs Mitchell and Millard, Hugh Xorris, and Jose Oon- 

 trares; and the plane-table surveys were continued and combined with 

 the route surveys made on the outward journey. 



