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Show 494 EQUIPMENT OF PROPOSED MISSIONS. encountered some difficulties thereon; that there may occur in the future some disturbance among the intermediate nations; and lastly ( considering) the very great expense necessarily incurred ( que ha de tener) in equipping missions and presidios by this route; I have pondered the other ( way) by sea. This may be either by the Golfo de Californias or by the Mar del Sur44 and Puerto de San Diego. By the Golfo de Californias it could be made in one small vessel with oars and sail, at the times when it has already been observed that this sea is less raging. If it were found possible to take the vessel up river to the Yumas, it would be a very great convenience, for she could unload at the very presidio and missions; and when this should not be practicable, founding a mission among the Cucapa will avail to unload the bark in some one of the creeks or coves of that shore, and thence to take all the cargo on pack- animals up to the presidio and missions. That the bark may be small does not appear to me to be a hindrance to equipping all the missions, for these in a few years from their foundation will not need provisions, but only clothing, panocha** etc., which will not be difficult to trans- 44 Mar del Sur: the Pacific ocean was so called; and so, sometimes, was the Gulf of California. ** Panocha is not a frequent synonym of azucar, but it means a coarse sugar of native manufacture, almost necessary in any In- |
