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35. Um'-ma-tazv. — Large village on present wagon-road between Camp 

 Curry and Happy Isles ; was some distance from the river ; water was 

 fetched from a spring. 



36. Ap'-poo-meh. — Camp on Merced River below Vernal Fall. 



37. — Kah-win'-na-hah'. — Large summer camp in Little Yosemite, whose 

 name it bears. 



VILLAGES IN MERCED CANON BELOW YOSEMITE VALLEY 



There were no villages in the narrow Merced Canon between the low- 

 er end of Yosemite Valley and the Cascades, where there were a few 

 houses called Y'l-yan. This name also covered the ground from Cascade 

 Creek to the junction of the Coulterville road. 



The next village on the north side was at the terminus of the new 

 railroad at El Portal (a distance of eight or nine miles), where the vil- 

 lages began and continued down-stream. Most of these were perma- 

 nent, but they were far larger in winter. than in summer, receiving ma- 

 terial additions from Yosemite when cold weather set in. 



Sif-ke-nod-al-lah. — Place and few houses on the soTvch'side of Merced 

 River a little above (east of) El Portal; now Indian Wilson's place. / 



Kep-pek'-oo-lah. — Place and small settlement on the south side of Mer- 

 ced River just above El Portal; now occupied by a white man. Named 

 from the abundance of kep-pek', the brake fern (Pteris aquilina), the 

 rootstocks of which the Indians use for the black design in their baskets. 



Kah-wah'-koo-lah. — Place and small settlement on the south side of 

 Merced River half a mile below Sit'-ke-no6-al-lah and nearly opposite 

 El Portal stable. 



Sal-lah'-to. — Large village on flat now occupied by the railroad termi- 

 nus at El Portal. The place at the mouth of Crane Creek at El Portal 

 is called Sas'-oo-lah; formerly a few houses where the hotel stable now 

 is. 



Po-ko-no. — Village on the north side of the Merced a quarter of a 

 mile west of El Portal. The flat gravel and pebble bench extending 

 along the north side of the Merced for an eighth of a mile just below 

 El Portal was known by the same name. 



Cho6-pi-tah, or Cho6-pi-do. — Large village on the north side of Mer- 

 ced Canon one or one and a half miles below El Portal, at the place 

 called Rancheria Flat (immediately west of the present Hite Mine and 

 northeast of the bend of the river) . 



To-yo'ng-am' . — Small village on top of a small pointed hill on the 

 north side of the Merced at the bend of the river just below Hite Mine 

 (really surrounded by Cho6-pi-tah, being situated in the middle of the 

 flat; may have been only a roundhouse). 



