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like ly to endanger themselves. They know that we sleep and 
eat and work by our needle guns and they move with great, 
caution in consequence.^ 
August 6th. Moved camp nine miles up the San Juan toward 
the ford. No Indians in sight. They have moved out on the 
5th. Possibly they are hiding in the cottonwood groves below. 
The valley at the edge of which the mules were recovered seems 
probably to have been once ascended by Capt. McComb in 18_. 
A trail follows it six miles to the source, thence to the north- 
west across the Mesa toward central Utah. We named it Recovery. 
Creek. 
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