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Show 436 THE START UP RIO GILA. The Yumas wished to take me to Caborca, 26 but I desired rather to return by the same route that I took with the expedition. I arrived at the Cocomaricopas, where I met many Yumas who were returning to their lands. The Cocomaricopas of the Agua Cali-ente 27 told me that they had not concurred in the death of the Yabipais Tejua; I praised their independence, saying that they had done well, and counseling them that even though their relatives should call for them they should not go to fight in the lands of the Yabipais, inasmuch as they are few and live apart ( from the others); that they should neither permit that the Yabipais should come to their lands, nor themselves should go to the latter's, because such intercourse ( correspondence) with the Yabipais was not to be carried into effect till the Espanoles should come; and that for bartering they could go down to the Yumas, but without fighting, even though they should encounter ( the Yabipais) on the road. The Yabipais Tejua do not yet know the lands of the Cocomaricopas, with exception of the Rancheria de la Pasion de Tucavi. 28 I continued my journey, visiting the rancherias of " I n Sonora: the place is fully noted elsewhere. •' On the Gila: note *, p. 118, Nov. 14, 1775. " This name of one of the Cocomaricopa rancherias I presume to have been given by Garces on his previous entrada. |