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to determine, for it seems that they ought rather to be called Pubiiiem, 

 since they came from the land Sejat, whose people were called Pii- 

 buiciii, and they also were called thus until they came to settle these 

 lands [here]. The reason that these Indians had for taking the name 

 Acagchemern and abandoning that of Pubuicm I conjecture may 

 have been, inasmuch as Acagchemem signifies heaped up pile of some- 

 thing alive, because they may have slept that night which they spent 

 at the place mentioned above all heaped together, men, women, boys 

 and girls, and the next day when they got up they may have said 

 Acagchemem, as if to say: we have all been together in a heap, and 

 from this their name may have followed: those who were heaped 

 together ; this is my way of thinking. 



It may also have happened that they found at that place some 

 kind of a pile of animals and called them Acagchemem ; but if that 

 had been the case, the place only would have been called Acagchemem, 

 and not the people or tribe. I incline to what I have suggested above, 

 and it seems very probable, because it is the custom of the Indians 

 that when they get together they pile up some on top of the rest. 



It is to be noted that before they came to settle this canyada of 

 San Juan Capistrano, they spoke somewhat differently from the 

 language which they now speak. What was spoken at Sejat appears 

 to have been the Gabrielino language, and these [people here] have 

 it very much corrupted, but nevertheless it can be recognized as 

 having been the same, for among their common and general terms 

 they use some of the same ones, except for the accent and a few 

 letters more or less. The reason that they speak the language which 

 they use today is that Chief Oyaison when they came to these lands 

 taught them while on the way the language which they at present 

 speak, telling them that since they were changing country they had 

 to change language, and this is the reason why they are different from 

 their relatives of Sejat. 



The name Sejat signifies place of wild bees, or jicotes as the 

 California Spanish people call them, for Seja in the language of the 

 natives is jicote, and seja pepau is the honey of the jicotes, and in 

 these regions there are many of these swarms or hives underground. 



