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With Mr. Bass as guide and Prof. James, an English [not legible] and lecturer Who wished to visit the canyon. After four days of wagons and horseback riding over a fearfully rough and perilous road we arrived at their Villages in the heart of [not legible] Canon. Twas their season of festivities and plenty. Their 500 or 600 peach trees [not legible][not legible][not legible][not legible][not legible] fruit I ever ate. It is [not legible][not legible] introduced by John Daly of Mormon fort in finding after the Mountain Meadow Massed. Properly instructed in budding and grafting and caring for the trees their fruit in these Indians would be as rich as the Navajos with their sheep. They also had some of the finest corn I ever saw and while I was there a hunting party brought in ten deer carcasess. Their danees are the the outcome of religious superstition they believing that they must either dance or die.
