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Show 430 ARRIVAL AT YUMA. south unto the Puerto de la Concepcion del Rio Colorado, as I will now relate. Aug. 27. I arrived at the Puerto de la Concepcion, where I was received by the Yuma nation with particular pleasure, for they had already mourned me as one dead, from another report like that at the Jama-jabs. They solicited me that I should not depart from their land, in view of the fact that in the following moon, said they, the Espanoles were due to arrive ( debian ya venir). They also expressed to me their grief and emotion, for that the Cocomaricopas, with wiles and under cloak of peace, had murdered treacherously seven Yabipais Tejua, friends of theirs. Here I found out ( acabe de conozer) the big lie that the Cocomaricopa told me among the Jalchedunes, cited on the 12th day. I gave them to understand how deeply I felt the treachery of the Cocomaricopas, and charged it upon Captain Pablo, who was governing in absence of Palma, that when he should see the Yabipais he should express to them on my behalf my sentiments concerning this deed of the Cocomaricopas, and ( tell them) that I was not going to visit them because I had not the wherewithal to regale tion from San Francisco, they took Padre Eisarc and Captain Palma with them when they went on, May 16: see note w, p. 311. The pub. Doc. at this point sums " Total 666 leguas." Beaumont MS. has nothing. |