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But the
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Pale-face brothers to pass in peace. Arizonians spoke of this villanous-looking place, as rather dangerous, and didn't care to venture through it alone; but parties of two and three travelled it frequently, and it seemed safe enough, if they went well armed, and kept a sharp look out. The trouble is, travellers in Arizona, and in all Indian districts, as a rule, _see_ no Indians, and so after a few days believe there are none--become careless, wander on ahead, or straggle along behind, _without their arms_--when presto! suddenly arrows whiz from behind gigantic rocks or down shadowy cañons, and men are found dead in the road, with their scalps gone. In all such regions, the only safe rule is the rule of our western Borderers, to wit:
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Never unbuckle your six-shooter, and never venture from your camp or train without your Spencer or Henry!
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), ten or fifteen miles wide by thirty or forty long, which bears every evidence of having once been well cultivated, and densely populated. Instead of mesquite, you here find clumps of chemisal two or three feet high, and bits of broken pottery nearly everywhere. Farther on, some eight or ten miles from the Salado, you find immense ruins in various places, and soon strike a huge _acequia_ winding up from the Salado, in comparison with which all the _acequias_ we had yet seen in Utah or California were the veriest ditches. It must be, I should think, thirty feet wide by ten or twelve deep, and seems like a great canal of modern times. Just where the road to Fort McDowell crosses this, it subdivides into three or four lesser _acequias_, and these branch off over the _mèsa_ indefinitely. This great _acequia_ heads just above where we crossed the Salado. The river has a considerable descent or