Note 66 — COMMENCEMENT OF THE EXPEDITION (continued 3)
Reading edition
This is now known as Bill Williams's Fork. It is composed of two main branches, the Santa Maria and the Big Sandy, and drains west-central Arizona, uniting with the Colorado at the present Aubrey City. The villages just passed were probably those of the Coconino (properly Havasupai), a distinct Indian family, although speaking a Yuman dialect. See Bandelier, op. cit., iv, pp. 381-833.—Ed.