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Show LAGUNA DE LA TRINIDAD. 425 Aug. 12. I traveled two and a half leagues, and slept near the Laguna de la Trinidad, of which I make mention on the other journey. 10 Here I was one day [ Aug. 13] detained to talk with the old men, my antique acquaintances. This day came a Cocomari-copa and said that the Yabipais Tejua had killed five Cocomaricopas. Much did I regret this information, and for the occasion thereof I blamed the fact that the Cocomaricopas had given to the Yabipais concubines, as I already knew ( they had done), and this alone could be the cause of the murders, in case they were confirmed. For this reason I notified the Jal-chedunes that, if any Yabipai under pretext of peace came to their land, they should by no means permit " To wit, on his entrada of 1774. The distances Garc6s gives for his descent of the river from Bill Williams' fork are now altogether 14 + 2 + 2l/ 2 - iBl/ 2 leagues = 49 miles. Most of this way is through the present Colorado River Indian Reservation ( Executive Orders of Nov. 22, 1873; Nov. 16, 1874; May 15, 1876), which extends on the Arizona side from the vicinity of a place called Parker to a little below La Paz, in Yuma county. I suppose him to be now some ten miles above La Paz; and very likely his Laguna de la Trinidad was at or near the place known as Half- way bend, where the river is now divided into separate channels. Some formation of this sort is a plausible explanation of a " laguna," and a place where the river thus spreads out would be a natural crossing. As he crosses here, we can set him down at this point with considerable confidence that we have it about right See also Font's map, on which this first crossing is marked agreeably with the determination I here offer. |