Kooky learnt a In Trip 
Trie sail is vcry soft and is covered with aspen gloves and wil¬ 
lows aril the most Immaiant grass possible. 
Sept. 15th; Broke oamp in the beautiful pari: and mac chad 
do to the low country between Hmoos and lost Canon« Tno pine for¬ 
ests succeeded the aspens and oak brush is quite dense* Tho cret* 
shales do not occupy much of tho surface below the bend of the 
llmeos - By three o ‘ eiool-c we reached the trail which runs to the 
great bend of the ho lore,;. Came upon Hod Jacket 1 3 omp a few 
.miles above the mouth of boat Canon. there was a snail village 
of the ordinary conical tepees 5 smoked at the top* abo ut which 
were a nut)on of bucks and squaws and children. Some idling* 
some horse racing and some engaged in drying great quantities 
of yucca. It is a twasasr plo.ee for camp, being upon tho edge 
of the sago brush plain cone 000 loot above tho hod of the stream* 
Harry and X stopped to have a powwow with Had Jacket. pound him 
quite siclr sitting on the grcvmcg naliod below the r;a-at and smeared 
with white powder on blovrv Be core;creed freely, however* saying 
that the Aoa jo country * about which v/e ashed hhig was very unsafe * 
especially to tho northwards* but allowed that a n poco ticnpcJ 
trip to tho eastern base- would be ; 'bicnon he hug,.trod about the 
return of Capffc. Moss to the Laplata camp. Bald that most of the 
dies wore In the Ifavajo country and that Old peg was on the Bm 
Juan. Hoda on to the great bend of the Dolores m& were much 
pleased tv find that the report that there were four or five 
hundred Indians car^ped there was totally incorrect. Two exor¬ 
bitantly ugly m& comical fellows came into camp in a little 
* 
ifoilo fishing tc "v&tah gup horses ' 1 to find out vho m were and 
when m were going aad perhaps above all fco got sans* thing to eat. 
