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Show KINO'S ENTRADAS OF 1693- 94. 535 culty and imposed upon the small place the large name of Nuestra Seiiora de la Concepcion de Caborca, which in Ortega's time ( 1752) still remained the most remote mission of Sonora. This journey is notable as the first on record to reach the Gulf coast via Altar river. Kino was at Caborca in July, 1693, and again examined the country thereabouts in February, 1694, as will presently appear. Ortega being too curt just here, I turn to Mange's Diary for original information. At that very date, Domingo Jironza Petriz de Crusate, an ex- governor of New Mexico, was put in command in Sonora, to wage war against Apaches and other hostiles during 1694. His nephew, Juan Mateo Mange, was commissioned as lieutenant, ordered to escort padres, and report in writing; his diaries are extant, as above said. Mange reached Kino's Dolores mission Feb. 3, 1694; and on the 7th both started over the Sierra del Comedio to reach Santa Maria Magdalena ( de Buquibava), where they were joined on the 8th by Marcos Antonio Kappus from Opodepe; and starting on the 9th they reached Pueblo de Caborca in two days. They followed down the river; on the 14th crossed the hills whose highest point was Cerro Nazareno, whence they viewed the gulf, and on the 15th reached the coast- first of white men to have done so from Pimeria Alta. The return |