COMPARATIVE VOCABULARIES. brah 
Coconoons. They live on the Mercede River, with other bands, under 
their chief, Nuella. There are the remnants of three distinct bands 
residing together, each originally speaking a different language. The 
aged of the people have difficulty in understanding each other, while 
the younger communicate more readily. It is difficult to get a correct 
knowledge of any of their languages, and I have therefore been obliged 
to pick up words as I could, without reference to order.” 
: 6.—Calaveras County. 
Reprinted from Taylor’s California Farmer, which states that it was taken 
from an Indian of Takin Rancheria, and that his tribe lived near 
Dent’s Ferry, on the Stanislaus River—the Sierra Nevada, of Cala- 
veras County. 
