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Show 412 OVER THE SIERRA MORENA. leagues more ( mas) to the west and one league southwest, I arrived at the rancheria seen ( vista), whose captain I had met before; and he went in my company. Here I tarried two days [ July 21, 22]. July 23. I traveled along the skirt of the sierra two leagues, and arrived at a rancheria that had its pozo." July 24. I ascended the Sierra Morena by the east, having traveled to its summit two leagues; thereafter I went one ( league) north, and found a rancheria wherein they regaled us; here there are two pozos, and a valley extends on the two sides of the river. This ( river) from the Jamajabs upward comes through formidable caxones. In the evening I traveled a league and a half south, and two leagues and a half southwest, and arrived at a rancho that had an aguage; which is yet another ( que aun es todavia) of the Cuercomaches. 24 " Unidentifiable, as we are not told whether he skirts the Ccrbat range north or south; nor are we certain, indeed, whether he is on the east or west side of these mountains. ( The Beaumont MS. has sudueste; pub. Doc. prints surueste.) ** This day's itinerary is equally confused; I cannot understand his allusions to the Colorado river and its valleys, as well as to its course above Mojave. What he says is perfectly true, but seems out of place; for he is not yet on the Black range, where remarks upon the river valley would be in order. He is in his Sierra Morena, the Cerbat range, which he traverses either through Mineral park or through Cerbat- most probably the former, as he continues south and west across the head of the |