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Show IN THE YABIPAIS RANCHERIA. 325 procure any game, make all participants thereof, though small may be each share; as I have experienced repeatedly; and on this occasion I witnessed it in this Indian, for, having cut up the buro or deer, before packing it he gave one- half to the captain who was accompanying me, contenting himself with the other. Both regaled me during the days that I tarried. This rancheria is of the Yabipais, 8 who only in name differ from the Jaguallapais. The Indian sent a runner reporting my arrival to his relatives, four of whom had seen me in past years among the Jalchedunes; and for this reason he sought with insistency my detention until they arrived. On the following day [ June 12113 f 14 f] there were arriving bands now of six, now of eight men, he who came at the head of each one of them making his harangue in my presence, and the Jaguallapai captain who was accompanying me responding to them on my behalf. This address of welcome is a custom among them; and at its conclusion each ( speaker) turns to his band, asking them if he has spoken well and if that which he has set forth to ' The Yavapais or Yampais of the previous note: see also note u, p. 208. They were commonly called Apache Mojaves in my Arizona days, and have given name to Yavapai county, Ariz., into which Garces is about to pass from Mojave county. |