Perennial streams are few. Usually a rather flat area on one side, or the other, or both. The topography affords natural shelter and good hiding places from enemies, easily protected. ( El Rito de los Frijoles is called in the Queres dialect Tyuomyi. Gorge 6 mi, long, 20 mi. W of Santa Fe in direct line Delight Makers p.3) Tufa yellowish and white. Judge A. J. Abbott says water ceased to flow at one place in the creek at his house for a few hours lately. He lives at our camp. "Caves- together with the cavities formed by amygdaloidal chambers and crevices caused by erosion, they give the cliffs the appearance of a huge irregular honeycomb." Delight Makers p. 3 or 4.
Have seen several water snakes below camp. "Ginger" (Nathan) Dowell says he killed one rattlesnake in this canyon just above the Abbott ranch, the only one reported, Said to be abundant on the Rio Grande. Asked a young Indian about them. He said great big ones, circling his thumbs and fore fingers together to indicate a diameter of about 5 inches. But when we laughed at him, he contracted the circle very much.
Small lizards very abundant.
