On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garces (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776; translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manscript, and ed., with copious critical notes

On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776; translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manscript, and e - Page 246

TRANSFER OF KINO TO SONORA. 531 pedition under command of Admiral Isidro Otondo y Antillon, which sailed in two ships from Chacala, Jan. 18, 1683: for particulars, see Bancroft, Hist. N. Mex. States, i, p. 187 et seq., with authorities there cited, especially Kino himself, Tercera Entrada de los Jesuitas en California, printed in Doc. para la Hist. Mex., 4th ser., i, 1856, pp. 408- 468, being a diary of affairs at San Bruno from Dec. 21, 1683, to May 8, 1684. Kino is little in evidence during 1685- 86, but was very soon transferred to the new field of exploitation which he was destined to make his own, where he won the title of Apostle of the Pimas after labors in Sonora and Arizona which ended only with his death; and during all these years he was the most commanding figure in Pimeria Alta. Ortega's first fixed date is Nov. 20, 1686, the day on which this " Apostolico Varon " left the City of Mexico to proceed to that of Guadalaxara. Here he secured from the Real Audiencia an order exempting his prospective con­verts from forced labor in mines and haciendas for a period of five years- not a great concession, in view of the previous Real Cedula of May 14, 1686, extend­ing such exemption to 20 years. As a late writer re­marks, such orders were " strictly obeyed, perhaps- in districts where there were neither mines nor haciendas " !