A mile up-stream he turned a bend and passed a Siwash Rancheria.
"The Hidden Places"
Bertrand W. Sinclair
From there a letter had been despatched to San Diego by Mr. Stokes, an Englishman who lived in a neighboring Rancheria; and on the 4th the command had moved fifteen miles nearer to the city.
"The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17"
Charles Francis Horne
At last there was a close and rapid rally, and half a dozen bushels of grasshoppers were driven into the holes; whereupon hats, aprons, bags, and rags were stuffed in to prevent the multitudes from dispersing; and then began the work of picking them out by handfuls, crushing them roughly in the hand to keep them quiet, and crowding them into the bags in which they were to be carried to their Rancheria.
"Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands"
Charles Nordhoff