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Show 414 AMONG THE MOJAVES AGAIN. these might search for me, and, if I returned, accompany me. They informed me that Sevastian, he who is the Indian whom I left among the Jamajabs ( when I departed) for Moqui, had a bad heart, for he had given away the shells and other things that I left him; that one of the mules had been drowned, and the other they had killed. In fine, they talked a great deal, and ceased not to converse with me. There came with me to this rancheria the captain of the Cuercomaches, ( and also?) a young fellow who knew the language of the Jamajabs and had served me as interpreter to the Yabipais, and two Yabipais Jabesua who brought mantas, leggings, and pieces of cowhide ( pedazos de cuero de baca) to trade with the Jamajabs for shells- only for white sea- shells, for no others do they receive in exchange. In this rancheria remained all those who had accompanied me hitherto, I taking leave of them with the utmost ( grcmdisimo) affection, especially the Jabesuas, to whom I was indebted for so many favors. |