26. we started at 6 oclok & drove 8 Miles & camped By a good spring of water & took breakfast then drove & Met Polaka on his return home from his trading tour loaded with raw Hydss & sundries Brother Brockbank found his 4 oxen that had strayed from Moan coppy and He took them onto Sunset we drove over a good Deal of good land oif theire had been water we visited the coal vain in a bluff about 10 Miles from the Moquis villages from 2 to 10 feet which we travelled over a good country for a road to day but No waggons had been over it we followed the great Navajoe trail the ownly obstruction we had was a great clay ridge about 12 Miles North of Sunset. This was the worst place to drive a waggon I ever was in we went down a vary steep Bluff unto a wash we finally came to a perpendicular descent of 12 feet then had to cross a high ridge vary steep then go down a vary steep rocky cliff which was dangerous to both Man & beast But we got Down safely and drove to Sunset 30 Miles