History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

DOMINGUEZ AND ESCALANTE.
The p Larty consisted in all of nine persons. Besides
the two priests there were Juan Pedro Cisneros, alcalde
mayor of Zuiii, Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, capitan
miliciano of Santa Fe, and five soldiers. 4 Having
implored divine protection, on the day before named
they took the road to Abiquiu, passed on to the Rio
Chama, and on the 5th of August reached a point
called Nieves, on the San Juan River, three leagues
below the junction of the Navajo. Thence they
passed down the north bank of the San Juan, crossing
the several branches, until on the 10th they found
themselves on a branch of the Mancos, some distance
from the San Juan, and beyond the line of the present
state of Colorado. 5 The 12th they camped on the
north bank of the Rio Dolores, in latitude 38° 13', 6 and
were there joined by two natives from Abiquiu, who
had deserted their homes to follow the expedition. 7
They now followed the general course of the Dolores
8 until the 23d, when they left the San Pedro,
which flows into the Dolores near La Sal, and crossed
Mexique, au Pe>ou, et sur la riviere des Amazones, on est ^tonne" de voir que
depuis deux siecles cette meme nation n'a pas su trouver mi chemin de terre
dans la Nouvelle-Espagne, depuis Taos au port de Monterey.' Essai Pol., l.
* ' Don Joaquin Lain, vecino de la misma villa, Lorenzo Olivares de la
villa del Paso, Lucrecio Muuiz, Andres Muniz, Juan de Aguilar y Simon
Lucero. ' Diario, in Doc. Hist. Mex. , ser. ii. torn. i. 378.
5 At the beginning of the journey their route was identical with what was
later known as the old Spanish trail from Santa F