Note 90 — COMMENCEMENT OF THE EXPEDITION (continued 3)

This is not the Pacos (Pecos), previously mentioned by Pattie (see ante, note 49), but the Puerco, a western tributary of the Rio del Norte. Puerco was also a common, though mistaken name, for the Pecos, hence the confusion. The Puerco is a narrow, shallow stream, about seventy-five miles in length, which, rising in the mountains west of Santa Fé and flowing southward, unites with the Rio del Norte a few miles above Socorro.—Ed.