RUINS OF MANKEESH. 



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and they were gone so long that we determined the 

 next morning, as the aguada lay but little out of our 

 road, to ride by it and water them ourselves. 



From this place we intended to visit the ruins of 

 Mankeesh, but we learned that it would require a 

 large circuit to reach them, and, at the same time, 

 we received intelligence of other ruins of which we 

 had not heard before, at the rancho of Yakatzib, on 

 the road we had intended taking. We determined 

 for the present to continue on the route we had 

 marked out, and it so happened that we did not 

 reach the ruins of Mankeesh at all, which, accord- 

 ing to more particular accounts received afterward, 

 when it was too late to profit by them, merit the at- 

 tention of the future traveller. 



