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The Colorado River 
400 acres of arable land along the creek, on which the natives 
raise corn, beans, squashes, peaches, apricots, sunflowers, etc. 
There are now about 200 of these people, and they are of Yu- 
man stock. Garces was well treated and rested here five days. 
Soon after leaving this retreat he “halted at the sight of the 
most profound caxones which ever onward continue, and within 
these flows the Rio Colorado.” 
“ There is seen [he continues] a very great Sierra which in the 
distance looks blue, and there runs from the southeast to the north¬ 
west a pass open to the very base, as if the sierra were cut artificially 
to give entrance to the Rio Colorado into these lands. I named this 
singular pass Puerto de Bucareli,' and though to all appearances 
would not seem to be great the difficulty of reaching thereunto, I 
considered this to be impossible in consequence of the difficult 
caxones which intervened. From this position said pass bore east 
northeast.” 
The padre is standing in admiration before the long line of the 
Kaibab seen as a great sierra from this position on the south¬ 
east, and as the land on the south rises toward the rim it prob¬ 
ably appeared to him as if the sierra were really a continuation 
of the San Francisco Mountains on his right, and was cut in 
twain by the great gorge of the river. From his standpoint he 
looked up Marble Canyon, and all the directions he mentions 
are exactly correct. They saw smokes on the north, which his 
guides said were made by the Payuches (Pai Utes) living on 
the other side. The Kaivavitz band of Pai Utes in summer 
occupy their lands on the summit of the Kaibab, hunting deer 
and camping in the lovely open glades surrounded by splendid 
forest. This same day his guides pointed out some tracks of 
Yabipai Tejua, who go this way to see and trade with their 
friends, “those who live, as already said, on the other side of 
the Rio Colorado.” It was one of the intertribal highways. 
Just where it crossed the canyon is hard to say. There were 
several old trails, and one came down from the north, reaching 
the river a few miles below the Little Colorado, but where it 
came out on the south side I do not know. There was once 
After the viceroy. 
