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sticks to the reccl.grass. 11 Crespi comrncntcd that the nrea would

make a suit~blc site for a mission, since there was good lands, two

large arroyos of water, and five large villages close together.

Next day the ~hite party reste~ but were v~sited again

by a multitude of good-riatured and affectionate Indians bringing pre-

sents of food. They passcd·along the information that the way to

the coast "was level and easy of access, u but that the road inland

"was very mountainous and rough.·" The Indians happened to be

celebrating a wedding and brought forth the bride--"thc most dressed

up ·among them a.11 in the way she was painted arid with her strings

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The following day, August 10, the Portola Party took the

Santa Clara Valley west-southwcst--as advised by their Indian friends,

They camped that njght in the Camulos area, which was in the wcs~6rly

part of Rancho San Francisco, and ultimately proceeded to the coast .
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[The Indians they had met were of the Alliklik group or'

the Shoshoncans, according to ethnologist A. L. Kroebc~. Ultimately,

as the party continued down the valley and up the coas_t it would be

in Chumash Indian territory.]

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