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EXPLORATION OF 
de quinientas almas de ambos sexos 
y edades que casi todo el ‘dia los 
tuvimos de visita: cerca de la ran- 
cheria [SyujtGin] tiene un ojo de agua 
buena y cerca del real hallamos una 
laguna grande que parece no ser de 
temporal sino de algun manantial que 
tendré’ en el centro. Las mesas de 
este parage tienen muchos y grandes 
encinos: llamdése este pueblo de la 
Laguna de la Concepcién. No se pudo 
observar haber estado el dia 
nublado; desde aqui se ven las islas. 
por 
Sdbado 19 de idem. [19 de Agosto, 
1769|.—Salimos este dia solo para 
apartarnos de tanto gentio; seguimos 
al Oeste por las mesas y bajamos 4. 
un arroyo seco [el Arroyo del Burro] 
aunque muy poblado de alisos y enci- 
nos, y siguese otra llanada de buena 
tierra prieta en donde paramos, no 
habiendo andado mas que media legua 
apartandonos de la playa acantilada 
y abordada de altos cerros; hicimos 
alto dentro de una canada que tenia 
agua corriente, aunque la arena se la 
embebe. No lejos de su nacimiento 
esta la canada vestida de encinos y 
alisos y por las cumbres tiene algunos 
pinos. Nos vino 4 visitar una ranche- 
ria, sin duda vivirian cerea. Los sol- 
dados esploradores que salieron esta 
manana llegaron esta tarde con la 
noticia de haber encontrado grandes 
poblaciones de mucho gentio, y que les 
hicieron buen recibimiento; por la 
noche llegaron 4 este real diez gen- 
tiles desarmados con el propésito de 
guiarnos en la manana siguiente hasta 
su rancheria. Se les permiti6 parar lo 
restante de la noche algo apartados 
del real, poniéndoles guardia que los 
acompanasen y se entretuvieron hasta 
el dia siguiente. 
BURTON MOUND [ErH. ANN. 44 
came over with their present of fresh 
fish, of which alone we got about four 
mule loads, and with this present there 
came to the camp more than 500 indi- 
viduals of both sexes and all ages and 
stayed visiting us pretty nearly all day. 
Near the rancheria [Syujttn] there is 
a spring of good water and near our 
camp we found a large lagoon, which 
does not seem to be flood water of a 
rainstorm but to have a spring in its 
center. The mesas in this locality 
have many large live oaks. This vil- 
lage was called that of La Laguna de 
la Concepcion. It was impossible to 
take observations, since the day was 
clouded over. From here the islands 
can be seen, 
Saturday, the 19th of the same month 
[August 19, 1769|—The only reason 
that we started on to-day was to free 
ourselves from such a crowd of In- 
dians. We went west across the mesas 
and descended to a dry arroyo [El 
Arroyo del Burro], which is, however, 
full of sycamores and live oaks, and 
then there is another plain of good 
biack soil, where we camped, not hay- 
ing gone more than half a_ league, 
leaving the bold shore which is bor- 
dered by high hills. We made our 
halt in a canyada which had running 
water, although the sand drinks it up. 
Not far from where itg starts the 
canyada is clothed with live oaks and 
sycamores and on the hill crests has 
some pines. A rancheria came to visit 
us; without doubt they live near by. 
The soldier scouts who went out this 
morning arrived this evening with the 
news that they had found large set- 
tlements of much population and 
which gave them a good reception. 
Ten unarmed gentiles came to this 
camp at nightfall with the proposal 
of guiding us the following morning 
to their rancheria. They were permit- 
ted to remain the rest of the night 
somewhat separated from our camp, 
placing over them guards to stay with 
them and who entertained them until 
morning, 
