CHAPTER VY. 
THE ARAVAYPA CANON. 
are to advance through the Gorge.—A glimpse at the Country aboy, 
—Formation of the Walls.—First Night in the Canion.—Difficulties of ‘ai6 
Surveyors.—Remains found by us after a Massacre in the Caiion.—The 
Gorge increases in grandeur as we adyance.—Animal Life.—The Vegeta- 
tion.—Photographing.—The Surprise.—The Caiion becomes very narrow 
and tortuous, and the Perpendicular Walls exceed 1,000 feet.—A Change 
in the Rocks and Plants.—The Cereus giganteus and other Cacti—Our 
Camps in the ae and how the Evenings wtre spent.—Indian War- 
songs.—End of the Cafion.—Indian Trails and Apache Wigwams.—Reach 
Camp Grant.—Colton and I leave for the South. 
Distance, 34 miles. 
( pAMP having been pitched at the entrance of the caiion, a 
: was formed to make a preliminary examination of 
it, and to determine whether our wagons 
; could be taken through or not. Two cavalry 
men were also despatched, with a guide, to Fort Goodwin, fifty 
; iles s distant—at the other side of the Pina-lefio Range—to 
obtain, if possible, a few more troops; for our escort had been 
cut erent by the change of command, from thirty men with 
erything necessary for campaigning, to fifteen men destitute 
most of everything. These matters having been settled, 
Stuart, our quarter-master, and myself started over the moun- 
ns upon two good mules, in order to obtain a view of the 
‘defile from above, and to study the general lie of the country. 
The scenery was wild and utterly desolate beyond the little 
narrow streak of beautiful vegetation which filled the gorge 
SS —. 
Nov. 19. 
