It may have been that Martinez actually stayed in the southwestern areas of the valley and never crossed the line of the lakes and sloughs at all. If so, when he mentioned "Telamé" he was talking about the subtribe Tulamni west of Buenavista L., not the Telamni in the Kaweah delta. In favor of such an hypothesis is his statement that "in all our trip we did not see a tree." This could scarcely have been true, had he reached the lower Kaweah R. The big river was very probably the Kern. [16] The photocopy in the Bancroft Library is poorly executed. Several words close to the binding of the original book are impossible to decipher. [17] For another version of this fight see the account by Father Cabot. [18] The personal pronouns in this excerpt are somewhat confusing. However, the reader need only bear in mind that this is a transcript of a letter, not the original. Hence the first two words may be rendered: "Father Cabot says...." The entire letter is, of course, condensed and paraphrased in the transcript. [19] Here is a clear instance of mission Indians going by themselves on a raid to the valley. They were, of course, authorized to do so by the missionary himself (Father Fray Antonio Jaime). How many such forays took place we have no means of knowing. As a rule, only when the expedition got into trouble was notice taken of it in the official correspondence or in the reports of the friars. It is probable that, in addition to these trips, which might be called "semiofficial," a vast number of Mission Indians came and went without permission. The disturbing influence of such small parties in the valley was not as great as that of the major, full-scale military enterprises, but in the aggregate must have been considerable. [20] These villages are in the general region of Tulare L. [21] These villages are all along the San Joaquin R. from Mendota to Patterson--in the Nupchenches group. Notice the final extinction of the village of Malime and the emigration of the inhabitants of Notoalh to the Sierra Nevada. By 1820 this area was probably completely denuded of Indians. [22] The eastern end of the Montezuma Hills, just southwest of Rio Vista. [23] Like those of other river explorers, Duran's leagues are not to be taken literally.