[28] The Mexicans call the Indians living near the missions and engaged in agriculture, mansos, or mansitos, tame.
[29] From a manuscript obtained in Santa Fé of New Mexico, describing the labours of the missionaries Fray Augustin Ruiz, Venabides, and Marcos, in the year 1585.
[30] From the report to the Governor of California by the Head of the Mission, in reference to the attacks by the American mountaineers.
[31] Indian expression for a free gift.
[32] Since the time of which we speak, Kit Carson has distinguished himself in guiding the several U. S. exploring expeditions, under Frémont, across the Rocky Mountains, and to all parts of Oregon and California; and for his services, the President of the United States presented the gallant Mountaineer with the commission of lieutenant in a newly raised regiment of mounted riflemen, of which his old leader Frémont is appointed colonel.
[33] The word fandango, in New Mexico, is not applied to the peculiar dance known in Spain by that name, but designates a ball or dancing meeting.
[34] A nickname for the idle fellows hanging about a Mexican town, translated into “Greasers” by the Americans.
[35] Cask-shaped gourds.
[36] The knives used by the hunters and trappers are manufactured at the “Green River” works, and have that name stamped upon the blade. Hence the mountain term for doing any thing effectually is “up to Green River.”
[37] Always alluding to Mexicans, who are invariably called Spaniards by the Western Americans.