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seems to appear twice again, first as Ciucut and then as Yutum (cp. 
“Yuctu” of the Padrén of Captain Felipe de Goycoechea, p. 55), 
after which the comment is added: “el pueblo de Ciucut parescia ser 
cabezera de otros pueblos,” “the village of Ciucut appeared to be a 
capital of other villages” (cp. Bancroft, p. 49). 
With regard to the spelling of the above forms, Xocotoc, Ciucut, 
and Yutum, it will be noted that sy is rendered by x (Eng. sh), ci, 
and y; the sound of Spanish j is represented by c, as is regular in 
the Cabrillo account, or not at all; u and o interchange; an echo vowel 
timbre is inserted after the j; and the final aspirated and somewhat 
decadent n is heard twice not at all and once as m. 
MENTION IN TIE DIARIES OF THE PORTOLA EXPEDITION, 1769-1770 
A second point in the history of Syujttin that has never been 
brought out is that the Portola expedition camped within two rifle 
shots of the rancheria on the night of August 18, 1769. We are 
fortunate in having diary accounts of this expedition by Fr. 
Crespi, Costans6, and Fages, each telling about passing through the 
Syujttin vicinity both on the way up coast and on the return 
journey. Each of these accounts presents facts not given in the other 
two accounts and helps to explain statements in the other accounts 
which might remain vague or misunderstood. For instance, Fages 
places the two ruined villages merely in the vicinity of Syujttm and 
says that their inhabitants mutually exterminated each other; Fr. 
Crespi says that one of these ruined rancherias was 1 league, the 
other 21% leagues from La Carpinteria and that the Indians said of 
the first of these villages that mountain Indians had attacked it; 
while Costanso states that between Carpinteria and Syujttin they 
found two ruined rancherias but could not ascertain why they were 
so. Only the Fages diary gives the number of houses in and popu- 
lation of Syujttin. That either Fr. Crespi or Costansé had seen 
the other’s diary is another amazing fact that comes from a com- 
parison of the wording. 
Fr. Juan Crespi notes the following in his diary :* 
Miercoles 16 de idem (16 de Agosto, Wednesday, the 16th of the same 
1769]:—Como 4 las seis y media month [August 16, 1769]—At about 
salimos [de los Pitos] siguiendo el half past 6 we started out [from Los 
mismo rumbo del Oeste que es el que Pitos] following the same westerly di- 
cerre aqui 4 la playa, y 4 las dos rection, which is that which here coin- 
leguas llegamos 4 otro pueblo [el Rin- cides with the shore, and at 2 leagues’ 
con] mayor que el de la Asuncion, pues distance we reached another ran- 
contamos sesenta casas bien formadas cheria [El Rinc6én], which is larger 
4Documentos para la Historia de Mexico, Cuarta Série, Tomo VI, México, 1857, 
pp. 317-321, 416; also Francisco Palot, Noticias de la Nueva California, California His- 
torical Society’s Publication. vol. 2, San Francisco, 1874, pp. 137-142, 237. 
