The party appears to have spent May 20 th in camp San Felipe 
(i.e. near present Del Rio.Vel Verde County) 
May 21 th the trip north and northwestward (thru Val, Verde and 
Crockett countys) tosthe Pecos was begun. This route roughly follows 
the present highway from. Del Rio to Comstock and then north thru Juno 
to several miles within Crockett Co. where the old road went iT 
generally northwest to old Ft. Lancaster on the lower Like Oak Creek 
near the Pecos. _ ,_ _ 
In his first expedition, in 1843, Wright used Devils River for 
the stream he calls the San Pedro in the present list. In his time the 
stream was commonly spoken of as the Devils or San Pedro Riv er. It is 
now known as the Devils River. 
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