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Show FESTIVE RANCHERIA NEAR PINE SPRING. 333 for they had heard it many times among the Tiguas; whereupon he fell to chanting it twice over again. June 17. I went two leagues with some windings through a rough sierra, 10 and arrived at the rancheria of the unmarried Indian who was accompanying me. I talked with the captain, who applauded my coming, and soon dispatched a runner, in order that the rancherias of the north should come to see me. Men and women came bringing me various little gifts ( regalitas) of mezcal, with which the land abounds. All were very festive, men and women dancing at their pleasure, and applauding loudly what I told them, that the Castillas- as they call the Espaiioles - were driving the Yabipais from the south and keeping them far aloof. 17 They drew on the ground a sort of map, explaining to me by this means the nations of the vicinity and their directions; and even with admiration did they rejoice when on their own map I showed them my route, we understanding each other in this way reciprocally. By this means was and 45 wounded ( some of them, including Capt. Burgwin, fatally). Toas was the Valladolid and Braba of Coronado's narrators in 1540. Present population about 400.- F. W. H. a* Simply continuing on the trail along the Aubrey cliffs for some five miles, to a position which appears by to- morrow's itinerary to have been two or three miles west of Pine spring. 11 Atnarraban 6 los Yabipais del Sur para Uebarlos mux lexos- a clause I have slightly turned. These were the Apaches. 1 |
