XIII, 253, c. Johnfton über die Ruinen am Gila. 333 



became prci^nant , and brought forth a boj , -n'Jio was the builder of all tliesa 

 houses.' He secmed unwilling to talk about theni , but said there %vere plenty 

 more of them to tlie north, soutkwest , <f-c. He said -when lie first hnew this 

 cara , it was in better presen>ation , but tliat it hud been burnt too long ago Jor 

 any of iJwin to remember. I showed hini the hieroglyphic , but he did not un- 

 derstand it (folgt eine hieroglyphifche Zeichnung). — Nun zu andern Triiinmerftätten : 



Nov. 11 The inlerpreter (600) of the Maricopas told Mr. Emory 



this morning that he could take hirn to a house north of the Gila larger tliaii 

 tliat we saw yesterday; being invited to go, I went , and found no house, but a 

 mound 50 jards bj 30, about 6 fcel high, with loose basaltic rochs covering it; 

 four slopes on top was loose stones , dirt, and potlerj; around this, on the east 

 side, a sort of low terrace, 100 jards on that side and 20 yards wide, termi- 

 nated bj loose stones, some of them set on edge. The mound ranged ■witk tJw 

 points of the compass ; and, from t/te top of it , the whole adjacent country could 

 be Seen. In Ute vicinity, northwtst, was a broad hole, surrounded by a mound 

 siniilar in size and appearance to t/ie -well of jesterdaj , evidentlj once cxcava- 

 ted , and filled up again. In the ruins , the guide said, ornamental stones, in 

 vesscls , were sometimcs found ajter a rain; thcse the Pimos prize as Ornaments , 

 but cut them smaller. I found a small sea-shell , pcrforated , which had been 

 worn as an onianiciit; other relics were pich'd up by Lieut. Emory's party. The 

 guide and other Indians informcd me that on Salt river the ruins of these houses 

 are more extensive; tliat an old secia (ift das l'pan. azequia und erreicht wieder das 



arab. iUSL» ) is there yet piain to be seen many miles in Icngth, and in every di- 



rection there are houses, some of them still Standing Iqfty. This account hos been 

 given by various trappers , one of whom reports the old secia 30 miles in length. 



Nov. 12 . . . . (wej marvhed (601) down through the. Settlements of the Pimos 



and Coco Maricopas, which are all south of the Gila On our road, 



tlie inlerpreter of the Maricopas said , that the flat laiid wc could see across the Gila, 

 towards the mountains, through which debouch the Salt and San Francisco 

 rivers , is filled ■witk ancient nums, and that some ofihe houses are still standing; 

 that their people know nothing of t/te builders of them 



Nov. 13 Our road lay (602) to the south of the mountains , below the 



Pimos, on the south side of the river Gila .... After progressing four or five 

 miles, the eye turned back, took in at a glance the vast piain, the mountains on 

 tlie San Francisco , the Salt river, and the mountains towards Tucson , limiting, 

 except in a few gaps, the soutlieast, %vhere it ivas bounded by the horizon. This 

 piain had once been the home of a mighty people, whose existence is ever a 



fable to the present dwellers on the soil Nov. 16 ... . on the north side 



(604) of the river, there is a mountain peak of volcanic rock standing between 

 two peaks . . . The road was lined with the remains of anqient houses , tJie 



