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Show WHICH WAY TO GO NEXT? 417 any presents, owing to the little that I possessed, it was inconvenient to pass on to the next one with empty hands. Besides this, the Cocomaricopas being friends of the Apaches ( i. e. 9 of the Yabipais Tejua), there was some question about my entering their lands first; for, my entrada being for the purpose of making peace between these and the Gileiios, I was in doubt of their good feeling, even though they ( the Jamajabs) told me that this was already established. I then raised and still raise the question of its formality, until there be realized a large presidio on the Rio de la Asumpcion, as I will say in the sequel. 8 • The whole of this paragraph is so singularly involved, owing to equivocal pronouns, present participles, and defective punctuation, that it cannot be translated literally. Whether or not I have given the exact sense of it may be judged on examination of the Spanish, which stands as follows. " Aqui me dixeron los Jamajabs que los Yabipais Tejua eran ya amigos de los Cocomaricopas por lo que podia salir por su tierra a los Yumas en quatro 6 cinco dias sin llebar el rodeo antezedente pero como yo sabia que estos havian muerto 3 Jalchedunes, y ambas nacio-nes estaban muy disgustadas, tube por mas conveniente sufrir la molestia del rodeo y pasar 4 visitarlos todos para componer-los indagando primero para esta y para la disposicion del cate-quismo y vasallage de S. M. el animo de los Jalchedunes, siendo mi principal comision para las naciones del Rio Colorado, y haviendo de dexar 4 una de las naciones sin regalo por lo poco que tenia era inconveniente pasar 4 la otra immediata con las manos vacias. A mas de esto siendo los Cocomaricopas amigos de los Apaches, habia algun rezelo para entrar yo primero 4 |
