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Show DESCRIPTION OF THE COLORADO. 431 them, but that I would do so at the coming of the Espanoles to the Pimas Gilenos and to the Rio Colorado; for I was ever the friend of the Yabipais, and the same would be also all the Espanoles. I added, moreover, to the captain, that he should keep the peace with the Cocomaricopas and all the rest of the neighboring nations. On this occasion I recognized the great providence of God in ( ordering) that I should go not from the Jamajabs to the Yabipais Tejua, as all had persuaded me ( that I should do), inasmuch as through this treachery of the Cocomaricopas would I have run the risk of my life. The river which the Yumas call Javill19 and we Colorado- not, as some think, because its waters be always reddened, but it is because, the whole region ( territorio) being colored, they became tinged in the month of April, that in which the snows melt, and there are the greatest freshets- is very peculiar, inasmuch as in all the year it rises and falls more or less, but in each case for a long space ( of time); it commences to rise from the last days of February until the end of June, and continues to subside ( va bajando) w Javill is the same word or name that is rendered Hah IVeol, with addition of the word Asientic, on a sketch map drawn by a Yuma Indian for Lieutenant Whipple and published in the P. R. R. Reps., vol. Hi, 1856, p. 16, pi. 2, of the Indian report by Whipple, Thomas Ewbank, and William W. Turner. |