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"It can scarcely be the Habana ship," murmured the padre, "for the Virgen de la Mar was at anchor in the harbour when we left San Augustin, and ere morning the storm had risen, so she would hardly have ventured forth to sea." "There are other vessels carrying sail that ply between the fort and these coast islands. We came from Santa Catalina aboard one of them," I whispered.
Royal J. Cutler, on April 3, 1869, came again into official notice as clerk of the Probate and County Court of Rio Virgen County, which had been created out of the western part of Washington County, Utah, by the Utah Legislature. The first session of the court was at St. Joseph, with Joseph W. Young as magistrate.
When I could make no better terms, I was forced to take this and a kiss to boot Pah!" and she rubbed her cheek. "To-morrow, when the tide is full, the Virgen de la Mar will leave the harbour. Before then I must contrive your escape." "And Barbara's," I added, for I could see the poor dame was in deep anxiety. Doña Orosia stared. "Upon my soul, we had all forgotten the old woman.
Below me, to the southwest, I could look off into the canyons of the Virgen River, down into the canyon of the Kanab, and far away into the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.
Calculating eighty or ninety miles by the river, and allowing for the open country he knew existed below the end of the Grand Canyon, he concluded that they must soon reach the mouth and be able to find the Mormon settlements about twenty miles up the Virgen River. Then he awoke Howland and explained the situation, and they talked it over.
From here to the mouth of the Virgen was the stretch that had, technically, never been explored, though it had been traversed, at least, several times. There is one small canyon in the distance, called Boulder.
In the year 1776, Father Escalante, a Spanish priest, made an expedition from Santa Fe to the northwest, crossing the Grand and Green, and then passing down along the Wasatch Mountains and the southern plateaus until he reached the Rio Virgen. His intention was to cross to the Mission of Monterey; but, from information received from the Indians, he decided that the route was impracticable.
He walked back and forth for some minutes in an excited manner, and then, bursting into a loud laugh, he cried out, "Carrambo, comrade! you are a tactician! The great Conde himself would not have shown such strategy. Santisima Virgen! it is the very master-stroke of design; and I promise you, camarado, it shall have speedy execution." "Why delay? Why not set about it at once?"
George, Utah, taking with them a boat, and came down to the Grand Wash, where they divided, a portion of the party crossing the river to explore the San Francisco Mountains. Three men Hamblin, Miller, and Crosby taking the boat, went on down the river to Callville, landing a few miles below the mouth of the Rio Virgen.
'To-morrow the Virgen de la Mar returns to Habana, and with her go the English girl and your humble servant. "'The Governor, I cried, 'will not permit it! "'Will he not? Ask him, said Melinza, 'ask his Excellency the Governor of San Augustin! Then he laughed at me Dios! he laughed at me!" She bit her red lip at the remembrance, and clenched her white hands.
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