AND: THE CASAS GRANDES. elk 
in making a visit to the celebrated ‘‘ Casa Grande” or 
“Casa de Montezuma,” as it was called by our Indian 
friends, alike with all other ancient remains in the coun- 
try. 
I left early this morning, accompanied by Dr. Webb 
and Mr. Thurber, taking as guides two Pimo Indians, 
one of them Mtsketatish, who spoke Spanish. We were 
all mounted on mules. After following the road for 
two miles, we turned to the east and struck General 
_ Kearney’s trail, which we found still deep and distinct, 
although but the trail of a single file. It is sunk three 
or four inches in the hard gravel plain; and as it will 
continue to be followed by other parties passing along 
the Gila, as well as by the Indians, it may exist for 
centuries, an enduring monument of that remarkable 
campaign. General Kearney had with him a mountain 
howitzer. The narrow ruts made by the wheels were 
as distinct as though it had just passed along; the six 
years which had elapsed since the march of that officer, 
have scarcely begun to deface them. 
After following this trail in an easterly direction, 
about eight miles across the plateau, which was covered 
with small mezquit trees, we turned off to the south- 
east. Another mile brought us to the building of 
which we are in search, rising above a forest of mez- 
quit. For two or three miles before reaching it, I had 
noticed quantities of broken pottery, as well as the 
traces of ancient acequias or irrigating canals, along the 
bottom-land, portions of which we occasionally crossed 
on our left. This bottom is a continuation of that occu- 
pied by the Pimos, although much narrower, if being 
only a mile in width near the ruins. It is thickly 
