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Show ARRIVAL AT JALCHEDUN RANCHERIAS. 423 Aug. 69 7> S. I traveled fourteen leagues on courses south and southwest, wherewithal I arrived at the first rancherias of the Jalchedun nation, called ( Ranch-erias) de San Antonio on my last entrada. 7 Behaved themselves admirably the Jalchedunes. So I appointed ( dej6 puesto) a captain of the nation as justica, on behalf of his majesty, as I had done among the Jamajabs; inasmuch as the Jalchedunes are so well disposed, and ready to receive padres and Espanoles. The old men said to me that not less than the Yumas did they themselves desire the Espanoles, whom they loved even as did the Yumas; and they added: " Well might ye have come this way, for we have a road as well to go to the Gecuiches ( they are the Danzarines) as also to pass to the Geni-gueches ( they are those of the Valles de San Joseph and de Santa Anna)." It must be observed that these Jalchedun Indians are the best dressed, not only in such goods as they themselves possess, but also in such as they trade with the Jamajabs, 8 Genigueches, that was left of Bill ^ Williams's Fork. The former mouth is now filled up, and overgrown with thickets of willow." ' His Fourth Entrada, of 1774: see the passage where the name occurs in my account of this entrada, p. 45. ' Debe advertirse que estos Indios Jalchedunes son los mas bien vestidos para lo qual no tienen solo para si sino tambien para comerciar con los Jamajabs/' etc. The Beaumont MS. and pub. Doc. differ with each other here, and both are widely |