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convenient to water — one near the Garfias spring which now suppHes lyincoln 

 Park with water ; one on banks of the brook east of Raymond hill ; one on 

 C. M. PhilHps's place, near the head springs of Los Robles brook and Oak 

 Knoll brook ; one near the Ben Wilson and Richardson springs ; one on the 

 Giddings place near the mouth of Millard canyon, far up whose mountain 

 course the tribe obtained their finest and fattest acorns for food ; and per- 

 haps others. Each village had its sub-chief, and these formed the " council 

 of elders " referred to — a sort of cabinet or board of directors, with Hahamo- 

 vic presiding. After the old chief was baptized and named Pascual, his 

 tribe were called the " Pascual Indians;" but later all tribal distinctions were 

 broken up by the Mission authorities and all were blended or mixed to- 

 gether as "neophytes," or "Mission Indians" — and finally called Gabriel- 

 enos, to distinguish this populace from those of other Missions — the term 

 ' ' Mission Indians ' ' having come to be applied to any body of natives who 

 had come under the rule of the padres. Our Pasadena chief, Hahamovic or 

 Pascual, finally married a Spanish white woman named Angelina Sysa, re- 

 sided at San Gabriel, and lived to be very old. Senora Maria Guillen de 

 Lopez, aged 83, and still living at San Gabriel, knew him as a very old man 

 when she was a little girl. Her mother was the famous Kulalia Perez de 

 Guillen, first grantee of the Rancho San Pasqual ; and her husband was a 

 son of the historic Claudio lyOpez who served as major domo (chief overseer) 

 at San Gabriel before and through the masterful administrations of Father 

 Zalvidea and Father Sanchez — or a total period of about thirty-six years, 

 as I was informed by his grandsons Felipe and Theodore Lopez of San 

 Gabriel. Their grandmother, Eulalia Perez de Guillen, was living at San 

 Gabriel and attended as midwife upon the mother of Governor Pio Pico 

 when he was born. May 5, 1801 ; and it was the family tradition that 

 Claudio Lopez was already serving as major domo at that time. Hence he 

 was overseer of Indian laborers for a longer period and in greater numbers 

 probably than any other man in California, and was the first man who ever 

 started any civilized industries on the land now occupied and known as 

 Pasadena. He used it as a Mission stock range. 



These primitive people do not appear to have had any sort of domestic 

 animals — not even dogs or cats — nor any sort of agriculture ;* but sub- 

 sisted wholly upon the natural products of the land, both vegetable and 

 animal, including the eggs of quails and other birds in their season. Never- 

 theless, in some respects they seem to have made real advances toward a 

 semi-civilization, as in matters of civil polity, literature, treatment of 

 diseases, etc. Their medical practice was combined with a good deal of 

 superstitious mummery by the "doctor," such as noise of rattles, smoking 

 [incense] to the Great Spirit, singing of songs or incantations, and other 



*The native inhabitants found on some of the Santa Barbara islands did have a domesticated variety 

 of coyote or wild dog; but the early Spanish writers do not mention any such creatures in the Pasadena 

 region. 



