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Show Ill the country of the aforesaid people and not only succeeded in bringing back eleven mules and horses, but, according to the report of other Yutas, called Jimpipas, shortly started out on a trip of about a months' duration for the purpose of retaking, not only the aforesaid eleven animals, but also twenty mules and eight horses, which among other things, had been stolen from men of this province last year in the country of the said Jimpipas, by Comanches and were retaken by the Yutas Timpanogos during a war with the aforesaid Comanches." It seems from this that Mestas had set out for the land of the Timpanogos for the purpose of recovering the animals stolen from the Spaniards by the Comanches and retaken by the Timpanogos. On November 20, 1805, Alencaster again wrote to the commandant-general informing him that Mestas had returned "without recovering more than nine animals since the pack mules of which he went in search, as a result of the cruel war which the Caiguas (Kiowas) were waging against the Yutas Timpanogos, in an attack, had been captured by the Caiguas." These communications suggest more or less continual intercourse between the Spaniards of New Mexico and the Yutas, some of which seems to have been carried on as far as the Timpanogos, that is, to the Utah Lake region of today, 11 It was the policy of the Spanish Government to control trade to the north of New Mexico, as elsewhere on the borders of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. The fear of the Governors was not to be assuaged; experience had taught them that traders could be dangerous unless controlled. It was in the prosecution of the violators of the law of trade restriction that records were created that leave us some very early and valuable information on the Utes. Hill says: Recently I discovered a document in the Spanish Archives of New Mexico, now at Santa Fe, which throws it* new light upon the activities of the period. It gives an account of a trading expedition to the Timpanogos, and the Bearded Yutas west of the Sevier River in the year 1813. The company consisted of seven men under ^Hill, op. cit. ,pp. l6-17. |