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Show KINOES TWELFTH ARIZONA ENTRADA, I7OI. 551 ( otherwise Santa Ana de Animic, 15 leagues from the last place), San Martin, and San Rafael. From Sonoita, departing on Nov. 12, he reached the Gila at San Pedro by the route already noted on other journeys. Mange accompanied him no further; he went alone, or with one soldier, who soon ran away, but with a crowd of Indians, down the Gila to the Colorado at San Dionisio, immediately opposite modern Fort Yuma. Crossing the Gila at its mouth, to the south side, he went through the rancherias of the Yumas, to the last of which he gave the name Santa Isabel; and on Nov. 19 he arrived at the first ran-cheria of the Quiquimas, which he called San Felix de Valois. On the 21st, still going down the left bank of the Colorado, he crossed the river on a raft, where it was 200 varas wide, and named the place Presentation; there, still among the Quiquimas, he was visited by a throng of Coanopas, Cuteanas or Cutganas, and Ojiopas or Giopas ( elsewhere Bagio-pas). He was told that the blue seashells did indeed come from the Californian contracosta, eight or ten days distant, and that he was only one day from the mouth of the Colorado. It seems to me miraculous, almost, that he did not proceed that one more day, after so many weary weeks and months as he had already spent in several attempts to determine this point; but he did not, perhaps being fully satisfied |
