“80. MOJAVE 'VALLEY'TO MOUTH OF ‘BLACK CANON—VICINITY OF PAI-UTES. 
‘through it.) Suice leaving the Cottonwood valley hé has appeared uneasy, and has given me con- 
stant warnings to.eXercisé precaution, for that the “bad Pai-aites” are prowling about. He says 
“that"great numbers of them live: near the: Mormon road, from which we are not far distant ; 
that there are many white men among ‘them, and that some Pai-utes who: lately visited the 
Mojaves told them that they intended to destroy our party as soon as it should enter their 
‘territory. He thinks that we are too-few in number, and looks dubiously at us and then at the 
Dank, when we come to places where the river is narrow and the formation of the gravel hills 
is favorable for, an ambuscade. There is seldom difficulty in selecting a spot for camp that 
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Fig, 22. "Painted Cafion. 
ould: be i apsrouts against: almodt any number of Indians armed only with bows, atid clubs; 
| nd: as full-mioon is. approaching the nights do not invite attack, 
4, The? view this evening of the island, the river, the labyrinth of low hills, the great chains of 
3 jountains that interlock from the north and south, and Mount Davis, towering directly over- 
Jead, ‘all-bitthed in the ‘brilliant moonlight, ‘is indescribably magnificent. 
The Indians are’ seated at the verge of ' camp, earnestly. observing the Dead semen. Its 
y ry: crest is draped in ‘a light. floating ‘haze, and misty wreaths are winding like phantoms 
ng ifs peaks and- dim - recesses. >The wondering watchers see the spirits of departed Mojaves 
hovering about their. raed ete and gaze reverently at the shadowy forms that circle 
around the pa summit. 
E Camp 5%, ino mouith: of Black: Catton; Mirch. &: —The: twenty olka of distance: between Round 
ndand the: present. camp required five days. to accomplish. “A: dozen or more rapids, of all 
& Scriptions, had £67 ‘be passed; some. we ere-violent and deep; others shallow. | At.a few the bed 
of the stream was sandy; but gerierally it was ‘composed of gravel and pebbles... Below the 
erest of one rapid the current forked, forming two eddies. Several attempts were made to 
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