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Excerpt from Natoma: An Opera in Three Acts
Vizcaino, the navigator, in a letter to the King of Spain written in 1608, remarked on the comeliness and unusual intelligence of the Californian Indian girls. There was with out doubt among some of these inhabitants a strain of the ancient Aztec race.
The literal translation of natoma is The Maid from the Mountains.
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