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wild Indians, who gave hardly more
than one sign of ever having been in con-
-tact with Europeans – this, namely, that they
used many Spanish words as their means
of inter-communication. His applica-
-tion for a land-grant was finally
Complied with in 1841; and he thus obtained
an inchoate title to leagues of territory
whose boundaries, however, were poorly
defined, and could not be accurately
determined without a survey, and in
the absence of prominent features
of the landscape to serve as monuments,
other than the American and Sacramento
rivers.