v1 CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER XXVIII. 
* FORT YUMA AND THE ADJACENT COUNTRY. 
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Crossing of the Colorado continued—Description of Fort Yuma—tThe Colo- 
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‘Facility of irrigation—Ruins of the old Spanish Missions—Difficulty of 
of Calfienta—Pravtented by Colonel Sista Diners of the Colo- 
rado in 1540 by Alarchon—Later voyages—Difficulties in navigating 
the Colorado—Attempt of a steamer to ascend the river—Its velocity 
and height—Fort Defiance—Massacre of Dr. Langdon and his party by 
the Yumas—Indians of the Colorado—Early tribes not identified—The 
Yum a of Alarchon’s —— in 1542— : 
Fathers Kino, Font, and Gar Sc ogee OG : 
CHAPTER XXIX. | 
FORT YUMA TO THE COCO-MARICOPA VILLAGES, 
Leave ess Yuma—Absence of grass along the Gila—Petahaya or Giant 
Cer ocks—Ex- 
ai heat—Night marches—Wagons found—How caches are made— 
Particulars of the murder of Mr. Oatman and his wife—Basin of the 
Gila—More sculptured rocks—Cross the Jornada—Great bend of the 
river—Another desert—Toilsome march—Reach the Coco-Maricopa 
villages. . . . Beene ah siete Secoe an a ytas , ROD 
PP ae se ers. Lae ee 
CHAPTER XXX. 
THE COCO-MARICOPA AND THE PIMO INDIANS, 
Visit from the Coco-Maricopa Indians—Camp removed to the banks of the 
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zoological specimens—Villages—Houses and ecae of ncaa ore 
uses—Horses and cattle. . . 213 
