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bes..¼ 1n retur.n. They funus4ed some other guides to a.coompaJlf us; ·

and we went on by the same valley, at-riving late a:t the watering :place,;

after a maroh ot ruut four leagues.

The cotu1.try trom the vlllag to tho watenng lace 1s d light-

. fUl and beautifUl in tho pl ain, altho the mountains thai. surroUild 1 t are·
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bare and Jtough. In th, plein we saw man,_ ·taJ.1 and thiolt c?tto~oods

and oaks; the watering place oo:u.siata of an arroyo v-n.th agreat d.eal

of wa.ter w, loll runs ill a mode~ately wide valley• well growu w1 h willows
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and cottom-1004.. We stopped on ·he bank of the nra,oyo, where we ... :fOUlld a

populous village in ihich tho p ople lived withou.t atJi'9' cove, t~r they

had no more th.au a light shelter tenoed ill like a corral. (Bani.a Clara

liver near Oastac, Los m~les, O&untJe) lor tllls :reason the soldiers

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called it &m.cheria del OorJ:18lt and l called it Sauta Ros · ~_Viterbo,
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Ulat this a.int mish.t b' protector for the ooaTersion of these l

s soon as we arrived. they gave us mel}1 baskets of different .ld.Dda ot

seeds, and a sort of sweet )?reserv like llttl :raisins, e.nd another

reeemblins honeycomb, vecy sweet E!Ild. 1:m.ri;illg, llJld. 1llll4e ot the dew whi<ih \

sticks to the reed. grass. lt is a voey suit&ble plaee for a JUsa:ion,

with mu.ch good land, ~ palioades, two very large arroyos of water,

and. £1ve large vil lages olo e together.

Wednesda_v, .August 9. !lhis was a df13 Of n et, 1n erder io give

an OPJ?Ortunity to the explorers to go and explore -along the beach, for we

had th1s .h:1gh mouniiain range in sight, rold we lUldersh oel frem. ~e heathen

that this is not $he on:t.y one, but that 1n the direction thP.'t we are

traveling there are four others, more rugged• and_ att~s a la.r~ river

, wld.Oh they sq vie cermot ford, am. which ram.s :to the sea; and that when
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we reaoh 11. we will have to turn back. .All this da;v we had V1slts trom

t l ese goOd lndians, who brought us their ·prese.u-; ot pin.ole, nuts, and

pl'eaerves. ~ey begged us to remain w;. th then1, · and l told them that we

would re·turn, wi th whi,cll thW were delighted. One t the heathea whO