CHAPTER V .-- The Search For The Canyon.
Ten days later the party took passage in a large boat going up the river to Santa Fe.

It had come down freighted with hides, and the odor still hung about it.

However, by this time they had become accustomed to the smell, and scarcely noticed it.

The boat was manned by six Mexicans, who sometimes poled it along, sometimes, when the stream was rapid, got ashore and towed from the bank.
It took them six days to arrive at Santa Fe.

Although just inside the United States frontier, the population was almost entirely Mexican.
There were, however, a few American stores, containing European goods of all kinds, for the use of the natives, and such articles as miners or prospectors going up among the hills would require.