68 NEW TRACKS IN NORTH AMERICA. 
entered, as we did, the head of the cafion, and came upon. ne 
Indian village just as the evening was changing to ml 
They hid quietly until daybreak, and then attacked the sav: 
with such effect, that out of seventy, who formed the b 
but twelve escaped ; all the rest were massacred—the wo: 
and children by the tamed Apaches, the warriors by 
Americans. The fate of this band was not undeserved, ’ 
it had been the terror of the country round for a long tim 
previously, and had committed many frightful atrocities upd 
the helpless Mexican and American settlers. These Apa 
had carried on agriculture to some extent in the cafior 
extent of bottom-land for such a purpose. 
As we advanced, the cafion became more and more tort 
Bold walls of rock often enclosed us in front and rear, 
as on either side ; nor could we tell which way to turn 
we had come ce upon the apparently insurmountak 
barrier. Higher and higher towered the walls. For 
first few miles they were flat and continuous from be 
summit, although portions here and there stood out like 
needles or lofty spires from the main cliffs ; but after 
ing a certain height, the walls became divided into 
upper portion of which seemed to lean a little back 
rise from the lower one, like a cliff springing from 
The walls, in fact, became two stories high, and each 
measured about 400 feet. The strata of the upper 
cliff continued, as before, to consist of conglomera 
grey sandstone appeared at the base of the lower or 
gradually extended upwards. Caves and groans : 
very numerous, and every mile added to the gr r 
chasm, 
