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Show 4 l 8 CONTINUING DOWN THE COLORADO. In this place I baptized three infirm old men and one little damsel ( doncelHta) who was dying; and the Jamajabs confirmed the same unanimously ( se con- Urmaron en lo dicho con iguales expresiones.) July 5 J- I traveled two leagues southsouthwest, and came to other rancherias. This day arrived a Yabipai Tejua Indian, in the name of his nation, to learn whether I had come and to convey me in order that I should go to his land- he who told me that already was it days that they had awaited me, to sus tierras pues siendo mi entrada para hazer las pazes entre estos y los Gilenos, dudaba del buen afecto y aunque me dezian que esto ya estaba hecho, dificultaba y dificulto su formalidad hasta que se verifique vn presidio grande en el Rio de la Asump-cion como despues dire." In other words: Garces was told he could go to the Cocomaricopas through the Yabipais Tejua without taking his former roundabout way. But the Yumas had killed three Jalchedunes, and both these nations were disaffected; so he thought best to keep on down river, and visit all its nations, to find out how they stood on the question of catechism, etc., as he had been ordered to do; besides, he was just leaving the Jamajabs without making any presents, and did not like to encounter the Yabipais Tejua empty- handed. Moreover, he mistrusted the temper of the latter, who he supposed would continue to make trouble, as they had done in the past, until a fort was established on the Rio de la Asumpcion. On comparing the Beaumont MS. and the pub. Doc. with our copy I find that the scribe misplaced the clause 6 los Yumas in the third line of the Spanish above given; it belongs in the fourth line, where we should read el rodeo ontezedente d los Yumas. I make it so in my English of the main text. |