270 INDIANS OF THE GILA, 
way to the Gila, run through a very pleasant country 
of arable land, ¢«nhabited by the Coco-Maricopas, 
who are separated from the Pimos by a desert, 
although united to them in consanguinity. Their 
kingdom is bounded on the west by a desert and 
mountainous country, extending to the rancherias of 
the Yumas, who live along the river Colorado, but 
below its junction with the Gila,” * 
It therefore appears that the Coco-Maricopas were 
found early in the last century on the opposite side of 
the jornada, or desert of forty-five miles, which reaches 
to the villages of the Pimos; and that thence they ex- 
tended east, occupying the banks of the Salinas, to a 
point north of the latter, from which, as Venegas says, 
‘‘they were separated by a desert.” They also tra- 
versed the country south of the Gila, where they are 
often located on the early maps. 
It is not my intention in this work to enter into 
any ethnological disquisitions respecting these In- 
dians; as they will form the subject-matter of another 
work. I will merely observe that, notwithstanding 
the deadly hostility existing between the Coco-Marico- 
pas and Yumas, their languages are nearly the same. 
The Comeya, or Diegenos, of the Pacific coast, will also 
be found closely allied to them. 
July 12th. In the hope that the Pimos might bring 
us in some mules, as promised, I determined to remain 
another day before leaving the Gila, ‘and to employ it 
* Venegas, History of California. Vol. II. p. 184. See also Cla- 
vigero, Storia de California. Hervas, Catalogo de las Lenguas. Vol. 1. 
pp. 337 to 343. 
