Remaining there only a short time, he rode back to Virginia just in time to get into the Civil War. He was killed in a skirmish at Kennon’s Landing, Virginia, in 1863.
E. Pen Long inscription
6.
Here you observe a number of very faint Spanish inscriptions which have never been completely studied. Note the word “año” (year) 1646. To the right is a lamp-blackened inscription reading “paso por aqui Miguel Alfaro.” (Passed by here, Miguel Alfaro). A date is not given, nor is the man yet known to us. Scholars, dating the inscriptions by letter style, say it was done about 1700.
The round black discs along the bottom of the rock are section markers. Each one is lettered and they divide the face of the cliff into sections so the inscriptions can be easily located and recorded.
7.
In Spanish, this inscription says: “A veinticinco del mes de junio, año de 1709 paso por aqui para Zuñi—Ramon Garcia Jurado.” Translated, it reads:
“On the 25th of the month of June, of this year of 1709, passed by here on the way to Zuñi—Ramon Garcia Jurado.”
