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another trail which came from the north down the canyon of 
Kanab Creek and found a way across to the Coconinos or 
Havasupai; at least Jacob Hamblin' told me he was so in¬ 
formed by the Pai Utes. The ‘‘Hance” trail, I believe, was 
built on the line of an old native one, and probably this was 
the one the Yabipais were heading for. 
The Moki Town of Mishongnuvi, Arizona. 
The hill surmounted by the town lies itself on top of a mesa. 
Photograph by E. O. Beaman. 
Garces had a good understanding of the topography, for he 
says when he reached the Rio Jaquesila de San Pedro, as he 
called the Little Colorado, that it joined the main stream just 
above his Puerto de Bucareli. Coues thought it probable that 
Cardenas on his way to the Grand Canyon, followed from 
Moki the same trail Garces is now taking to reach that place, 
and that therefore the first view Cardenas had of the canyon 
was from near the same place as that of Garces—that is, he saw 
the Puerto de Bucareli. This is hardly probable, as Garces 
was only five days reaching Moki from here, and Cardenas 
travelled twenty from Tusayan to the canyon. As I pointed 
out on a previous page, so far as the data go, Cardenas reached 
the Grand Canyon opposite the east side of the Shewits 
plateau. 
Of the Little Colorado Garces said: “The bed of this river 
as far as the confluence is a trough of solid rock, very profound. 
'Jacob Hamblin, whom I knew very well, was the “Leather-stocking” of 
Utah—'a man who knew the Amerinds of Utah and northern Arizona better than 
any one who ever lived. 
