They were located within a radius of one league of each other and must correspond to the three seen by Moraga.
For basic population data we are consequently forced to depend upon Cabot, Moraga, and Martinez.
Moraga evidently saw two villages and heard of about five others.
Moraga then went north and returned to the Merced on October 7.
To confine an argument or an estimate to a single account, such as that by Moraga, may lead to a false impression.