By David Brugge - Arizona Department of Water Resources

I arrived at a ranchcria of Yabipais that should have
as it were 30 souls, 1: was received with many civilities, for
here was the Indian who as said above, had sung the hymm.
The captain of this rancheria, who wore the beard very long,
was brother of the Jabesua Indian that accompanied me - - -
Julv 1. I went one league and eastsoutheast, and found
a river that seemed t~ ne t3 be the Rio San Pedro Jaquesila
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(actually Nucnkopi wash), and on a mesa zon.tiguous thereto a
half-ruined pueblo. I asked what that Wac:, and they answered
me that it had been a pueblo of the Ploqui (~opi), ......- and ----- that
some crops which were . near _ to a -. -- s_p_ring-~~t~gr-~~wc_re-~&heirs, they
koming to cultivate -- - -. them .- .- - from the same Moqui pueblo (~raibe)
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that is today so large. The river runs little, and it is yellowish;
having crossed it and ascended some hills, I entered
upon some very wide plains, without one tree, though theze is
some small grHss: and having gone six leagues (about 15 miles)
in the same direction I arrived at some pastures where the
Moquis keep - their horseherd. These pastures are of difficult
entrance and worse exit; there are found ,some scanty aguajes.'
(Coues, Elliott, The Trail of a Spanish Pioneer, Francis
P. Harper, New York, 1900. pp.T56-58)
~arce/s+ was not hos~itably received at Oraibi and soon returned
by the same trail. He wrote of his stop at the Tuba City rancheria
on his return:
-' Julv 5 T arrived at the rancheria of Yabipais, having .
gone a league and a half westnorthwest. The bearded captain
and his people were much grieved that the Moquis ha6 given
me nothing to eat, and themselves did even more than at the
going. They had killed beef, and (it was) one of those head
of cattle which run wild, on the whole of which did t 1 - 2 ~ feast
me - - . @bid. p. 403) .
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~arces~ journal makes it clear that in 1776, the Ho~is - used - -
land as far west as Moenkopi ------ and the Havasupals used land as far
east as Tuba city. The ye.ir was a very productive one for recorbs,
however. In November., another expedition, with Escalante as chronicler,
came from the north and added to our knowledge of the Tribes
of the area; E~calante's journal entry for November 14th contains
most of the pertinent information:
- - - - W e continued southeast, and having golie three-
fourths of a league, we entered a canyon in which'four springs