Cima (summit), between San Bernardino and Las Vegas.
Cimarrón (wild, unruly). The Spaniards applied this word to plants or animals indiscriminately, sometimes using it in reference to the wild grapes which they found growing in such profusion in California, sometimes in reference to wild Indians. The writer who translated it as “lost river” must have drawn upon his imagination for that definition.
Cisco. See page [329].
Los Coches (the pigs).
Codornices Creek (quail creek).
Cojo (lame). See page [106].
Ranchería del Cojo (village of the lame one), so-called from a lame Indian seen there.
Coloma, a town in El Dorado County, so-named from the Koloma tribe, a division of the Nishinam family. It was at this place that Sutter’s Mill, where gold was discovered in 1848, was situated, and it is also there that the native sons erected a monument to John W. Marshall.
Colorado (red).