Rio del Tizon 
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went west, following native guides for 150 leagues (412^ miles) 
in all, and at length reached a country inhabited by giant nat¬ 
ives who, in order to keep warm in the chill autumn air, car¬ 
ried about with them a firebrand. From this circumstance, 
Diaz called the large river he found here the Rio del Tizon. 
An Arizona Landscape. 
There are Navajo Gardens in the bottom of this canyon. 
Photograph by E. O. Beaman. 
This was the Buena Guia of Alarcon. The natives were pro¬ 
digiously strong, one man being able to lift and carry with ease 
on his head a heavy log which six of the soldiers could not 
transport to the camp. Here Diaz heard that boats had come 
up the river to a point three days’ journey below, and he went 
there to find out about it, doubtless expecting to get on the 
track of Alarcon. But the latter had departed from the mouth 
