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Show 428 LAST RANCHERIAS OF THE JALCHEDUNES. Aug. 23. I went one league and a half south, and slept in the last rancherias of the Jalchedun nation. 15 I met here certain Yumas, in spite of ( sin perjuicio de) the three murders of Jalchedunes that these ( Yumas) had committed a little time before, on account of some stolen horses, in the matter of which grievance were they already reconciled ( cotnpuestos). In all the rancherias of Jalchedunes they assured me that, had they wished to fight, already would they have gone down to avenge on the Yumas the death of their relations, but that certainly they did not now " This statement enables us to fix the limits of the tribe with considerable precision. These Indians inhabited the Great Colorado valley or arable lowland between the Chemehuevis valley above and the country of the Yumas below. The valley begins above at the point where the Monument mountains cease to hem in the river, a few miles below the confluence of Bill Williams' river, and extends some 30 miles in air line S. S. W., to the point where outliers from the Chocolate mountains began to close in upon the river. This is a little below the small tributary from the west known as Carroll's creek, in the vicinity of the Long bend and Dismal flats. This whole stretch is still almost as much of a waste as it was in GarceV time, the most notable places on the river being La Paz, Ehren-berg, and Mineral City, from two- thirds to three- fourths of the way down the valley. The most conspicuous features of the country are Riverside mountain and the Halfway mountains, approaching the river on the Californian side in the upper half of the extent of the great valley; while lower down and further away from the river, on the Arizona side, is the Dome Rock range. |