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Show 468 ROUTES TO NEW MEXICO AND CALIFORNIA. my opinion, must be, to proceed from the Rio Gila to the Jalchedunes, whence, the river ( Colorado) being passed, there are at a day's journey the Tinajas de San Joseph, abounding in water, and next day to the Jecuiches or Danzarines, where they tell me there are lagunas with carrizo and no lack of grass of that ( sort) which the soldiers call galleta; and through here to proceed to the Puerto de San Carlos; but if it be not desired to go by this last, it is possible from the nearest Jecuiches to proceed by the skirt of the Sierra Nevada to the Jenigueches of the same sierra; and from these in a day's journey to the Arroyo de los Martires, and thence to San Gabriel or San Luis ( Obispo) by the road that Don Pedro Faxes took; and if even this road does not suit ( no quadra), there can be taken that which I went over. This is what I can say concerning the communication of Sonora with Monte- Rey. 20 As regards that of New Mexico, it is possible to proceed through the Yutas and seek the Rio de San Felipe, and down the banks of this will be found my road. I doubt not that there may open another, better, and shorter than that which I traced " The tribes and places named in the above paragraph have all been noted in the body of the Diary where they came up. It will be here recalled that the Puerto de San Carlos is the modern San Gorgonio pass through which the railroad goes; the Arroyo de los Martires, the Mojave river; and Rio de San Felipe, Kern river. |