the autumn. Neither Santiago nor Dowel know the species, but from what the((y)) say and the character of the country it is probably the mule deer. Rained a little during the afternoon and evening.
Rito de los Frijoles, Friday, Aug, 5, 1910.
Up at 5:45, Cloudy. Breakfast at 6:30. Finished reading Bandelier's "Delight Makers". On p 296 he makes Shotaye tell about finding where a rattlesnake had been eaten. See yesterday's comments on snakes. There are several important elements in the origin of the cliffs here. It is a stream cut canyon. The bluffs are confined to the NE side of the canyon, being replaced on the SW side by a steep, rather uniform, slope (see under Aug. 3). Bandelier says it is thus in all the canyons of the region. Nusbaum confirms this. Bandelier suggests that the cliffs are formed by the beating of the heavy rains, which he says are prevailing from the direction which caused most of them to strike this side of the canyon. Probably however, the dry winds are nearly as important
