their .way to the Moqu^is tee Weep. Went down the river 6 miles 
with him. Examined the section in the bluffs. The same series 
of beds is exposed as in the McElmo. (See section of Aug. 6). 
Said good-bye to Jack near the crossing of the Old California 
wagon road and returned to camp. Worked on my Geological map. 
August 4 - 
Mo>ved 14 miles down the San Juan, camped within a few miles 
of our western line-109° 30"). Passed by the mouth of the Rio 
Montezuma, a deep valley with a dry bedibut many cottonwoods. 
Met an outfit of Indians consisting of four men and five squaws. 
The two younger fellows were Impudent "devil may care" fellows. 
The two older were quieter and more polite. The oldest was a 
tall slender man of, say 50 years, with a sober composed counte¬ 
nance and a mouth of ungodly width. He shook hands and called 
("my friend TT ) 
me "Mi amigo"/ said also that they were Hava joes. They drove, 
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some 20 or 30 sheep and goats, and indicated that their "Wicky 
up" would be made at the junction of Montezuma and the San 
Juan. My outfit soon came up and T took them to camp, 4 miles 
below the Montezuma. Chit t^ had crossed at the wagon ttrail ford 
and was making a station $ r outh of the river. The Indians ad- 
(get out) 
vised him to "Piqua'/up the river but Chitty didn't pike. The 
night following was destined to be one of unusual . excitement to 
our party, I was awakened at ten or eleven o’clock by a con¬ 
fusing;. of sounds and the excited inquiries by Chitty and others 
