an ancient burial place# The stones are still standing but 
huge trees have grwon up through them# Digging brought to 
light only a little charcoal, arrowheads and pottery-ware 
were scattered about. A chenve r defrig was built along the 
t 
edge of the bluff# Stone cutting was seen and an axe found. 
This seems more modern. 
August 31st.- 
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Dolores. Started up the Canon. The trail turned up a 
gulch a mile above camp and we followed it up to the head and 
were on the flat upland, 2 miles from the Rio. Camped in a 
broad meadow near the South bend. In approaching the canon 
along the way we were astonished to find the San Juan drainage 
extending up to the very banks of the Dolores. The canon is 
as muc** as 1000 feet deep bexow. Camp a fey/ miles, and very 
narrow. The side gulches on the North are very marked. As 
we approach the bend the beds fall off and No. 1 forms the walls. 
(As low in one place as 300 feet). Came upon some ruins in 
the meadow, and a few cliff houses in the North wall at the 
South bend, opposite the mouth of Last canon. There have been 
extensive Indian camps in these meadows. 
September 1st.- 
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Reached Mane os Camp in good time. Peaie and Gannett went 
ahead to catch the out-going mail. 
September 2nd.- 
Found affairs at the LaPlata Campa about as usual, but no 
