54 EXPLOKATIOXS ACEOSS TI1E GEE AT BASIN OF UTAH. 



and pointed, and with another, of a spade-form at the end, the earth is dug away 

 until the animal is reached and possessed. 



The Go-shoots, as well as the Diggers, constantly carry about with them these 

 instruments of death, which, with the bow and arrow and net, constitute their chief 

 means for the capture of game. Hanging on the brush about their "kant," as they 

 call their habitations, I noticed one of these nets. It was well made, of excellent twine 

 fabricated of a species of flax which grows in certain localities in this region, is 3 feet 

 wide, and of a very considerable length. Wirh this kind of net they catch the rabbit. 

 A fence or barrier, made of the wild sage-bush plucked up by the roots, or cedar 

 branches, is laid across the paths of the rabbits, and on this fence the net is hung verti- 

 cally, and in its meshes the rabbit is caught. 



The fear of capture causes these people to live generally some distance from 

 the water, which they bring to their "kant" in a sort of jug made of willow tightly 

 platted together and*smeared with iir-gum. They also make their bowls and seed and 

 root baskets in the same way-a species of manufacture quite common among all the 



and Pueblo Indians of New Mexico * 



I noticed a species of the food they eat, and which is made from seeds and roots 

 which they get in the bottoms. I tasted it, but it looking precisely like a cake of 

 cattle-ordure, and having anything but an agreeable taste, I soon disgorged it. 



The Go-shoots, according to Mr. Bean, my guide of last fall, who has lived in 

 this country for the last ten years, and professes to Lie well acquainted with the various 

 tribes inhabiting the Territorv, are an offshoot from the Ute Indians, and left their 

 ; ago, with their leader or chief, Goship, a disaffected 

 therefore, is probably Goship-Utes, which has become con- 

 eir language is a sort of gibberish, made up of the Ute 

 [t is said they are little esteemed by the original tribe, 

 Ute Indian among them married to one of their people, 

 cognized no chief Now, at the instigation of the Govern- 

 ,but as yet do not know how to respect him. It was 

 men slyly tucked under their rabbit-skins the hickory 

 em, their whole demeanor representing that they are a 



r. Reese, at our present camping-ground. He found the 

 ted by the Indian he took with him from Camp No. 5, but 

 me. Paid the Indian in tobacco and a couple of hickory 

 shirts. 



MayM\ Camp No. S, Pleasant Valley.— -Altitude above the sea, 6,150 feet. Ice 

 f >rmed in the bucket last night. Thermometer at 5 a. m, 33°.T5. The guide, with Ute 

 Indian Pete and two other men, left us this morning to continue an examination of 

 the country to the south of and parallel to our route. They are to continue on, if 

 possible, in that direction, and join us in Ruby Valley. 



Pleasant Yalh-\ . wl icli i> very narrow, contains grass all along it, but no water 



* See my report of Navajo expedition, Sen. Ex. Doc. No. 64, 31st Cong., 1st sess., p. 118, 



tribe about two gei 



leader. Their prop* 



tracted into Go-sho< 



and Sho-sho-nee dia 



though I find occasi 



They have until rec 



ment, they have ele< 



amusing to see how 



(checked) shirts we 



suspicions, secretive 



We found the j 



water at the places i 



farther south than h 



