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>us monk built his hut, recognised the symhol, and called 

 from the meeting of the waters, "Trinidad" — the Trinity. 

 Lother reared a cross in a beautiful yalley, and called it 

 Santa Cruz ;" while some early settlers almost thought they 

 ere ensuring a blessing for their posterity when they chris- 

 sned their poor shanties Santa Domingo, Jesus Maria, Spiiito 

 cto, and the like. Apart from Scripture names, many 

 lied by the Spaniards are very happily chosen. There is 

 Manzana Mountainj celebrated for its oak trees; tlie 

 ndia, shaped exactly 

 ^^ Jornada del IVInertOj'' or joiu^ney of death; and tliere is 

 little village at the point where this arid trail reaches the 

 10 Grande^ aptly named Socorro. 



^ Compare these with the names we find all over Colorado 

 jXarryall Eanche/' ^^Casli Creek/' ^^ Gulcher Diggings/' 



There is 



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Buckskin .Toe," "rair-play," " Strip-and-at-him Mine," 



Hooked Man's Prairie," and the like — and we have about 



great a contrast as exists in reality between the rough, 



nly Saxon pioneer and the indolent, superstitious Mexican. 



The first excitement on our arrival was an Indian " paw- 



ow," which happened most opportunely. Diu^ing the 



lorning, a party of ISTavajo warriors, headed by the chief, 



hn-hor-cita, came into town to arrange some matters relating 



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their brethren ; and, not long afterwards, one of the most 

 iterprising of the Comanche chiefs came with his wife — a 

 lexican by biiih— to trade with some of the merchants. It 

 ippened that of late the Comanches, who are a very warlike 

 ce, had been harassing the unfortunate Is^'avajos at the 

 osque reserv-ation on the Eio Pecos, where they are kept 

 ' the Government, and causing thereby a great^ deal of 

 ffering and ill-feeling ; for the :N"avajos, having been at last 

 bdued by the military, were now in so deplorable a condi- 



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