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Show 4IO ON A NEW ROUTE TO MOJAVE. To- day I departed from the road of the going ( de la yda, i. c, former route). I went six leagues onward ( mas) in the direction said in order to arrive at this arroyo, where I made night, and therein I found a rancheria of Yabipais Cuercomaches, who received me well, on account of the information that they had received from the other Indians, and also because I had in my company two principal Indians of the Jabe-sua, who were going to trade at the Jamajab, attesting ( protextando) therein the peace and harmony recently established. On this day I met four Yabipais who by order of their captain were going to seek me, apprehensive lest some ill had befallen me, in view of my tardiness- an act which proves the great affection he ( the captain) had for me. July 18. I traveled down the arroyo a league and a half northwest, and then, having gone over some hills, came out upon a little valley that I called ( Valle) del Lino21 for the much wild ( flax) that there was, and it trail back to Mojave is henceforth entirely north of the route by which he went before, as every place he reaches has a different name, excepting the two main ranges, the Cerbat and Black mountains- his Sierra Morena and Sierra de Santiago. Nevertheless the genral trend is the same; the difference is only in details which we cannot satisfactorily make out. n " Que Uame del Lino por el tnucho ( lino) cimarron que habia" etc. This is a well- known plant in Arizona, Linum perenne or a closely related species. As we have already seen, it gave the |