JORNADAS. ee 
ound. Jornadas, or long stretches of country without water, 
form the greatest difficulty, next to the Indians, which beset 
the path of the traveller and emigrant, and they become more 
and more frequent until California is reached. Year after 
year, however, these jornadas are cut down in length by the 
di scovery of springs or better-watered routes, or by digging 
put and enlarging transient water-holes, so that a sufficient 
supply can be retained in them, after the rains, to last during 
the intervening droughts. 
Two guides had been engaged by Colton; both were 
Americans—one for each party. We could not hope for a better 
one than Juan Arrolles, who was still with us; but Colton 
having heard that a prospector, named Simpson, had passed 
through the largest and most difficult gorge on our proposed line 
of survey—the Aravaypa Cafion—thought himself fortunate 
in being able to engage him, for very few had ever entered 
that defile. It was considered as dangerous as it was known 
to be difficult, and even the most experienced of Western 
travellers laughed at the idea of our attempting to force our 
way through it, or survey it for a railroad. 
