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Show 548 KINO'S TENTH ARIZONA ENTRADA, 1700. Tucubabia, Aguage de Santa Eulalia, Nuestra Senora de la Merced, and Rancheria de San Geronimo, thus striking Rio Gila above its great bend, which is recognizably described on his journey down this river to the Yumas. Here he climbed a hill to see whether California was mainland or an island, and heard of Indians called Quiquima, Bagiopa, Hoabonoma, and Cutgana. Crossing to the north side of the Gila he went down to its confluence with Rio Colorado, and the Yuma rancheria there, on the east side of the latter river, he named San Dionisio, that being the ecclesiastical functionary on whose day he reached the spot; the name is printed " Doonysio " on his map of 1701. Having made his geographical observations, among which it is interesting to observe the use, perhaps for the first time, of the name " Alta California/' and for which he was afterward, considered to have settled the question of Californian peninsularity, he started to return home. This was by way of places called Aguage de la Trinidad and Agua Escondida to San Marcelo ( Sonoita): thence by San Luis de Bacapa and San Eduardo to Caborca; thence by Tubutama and San Ignacio to Dolores, Oct. 20. The fame of this exploration spread to Father Juan Maria de Salvatierra at his post of duty in California Baxa. In January, 1701, he reached Sinaloa at the mouth of Rio Yaqui; on Feb. 16 he was found by |
