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near the mouth of Castila R. we passed through the little Mormon town of Eastdale, rather a nice settlement as far as we could judge in a pouring rain.  Then on Triules farther west we crossed the Rio Grande Canyon - the very upper end of it, on a fine iron bridge of 3 spans from rim to rim about 75[[strikethrough]] 00 [[/strikethrough]] feet above the water. The canyon is cut through solid lava beds.

To the west lava buttes & craters form a series parallel with the river & we made a dry camp in a gap of this series 3 or 4 miles west of the river, close to the little flat topped,  black butte on which the Utes killed about 20 cheyennes many years ago. Sun Elk knew about it & asked a Mexican which butte it was & found it was the one closest to our camp.

The Cheyennes got drunk at a Mexican saloon at Castilla & started for the Ute camp on the Conejos to steal horses. They were discovered, chased back to this butte where they held their own for a good while but were finally overcome & all but