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Show JOURNEY TO CIBOLA ‘a NL amen~ | & . ' Vnu RE» Reprint from Beaumont Franciscans converting Indians Beyond the Rio Mayo, possibly the Yaqui, he left the coast, and turning toward the north reached the town of Vacapa, in all probability the town of Matapa,’*? not far south of the valley of the Sonora river. At Vacapa he rested until Easter, having despatched messengers to the sea coast, only forty leagues distant, and at the same time ordered the negro, leagues and in the either to return in the Indians a cross Estevan, to proceed to the north fifty or sixty event he heard of rich and populous countries, person, or to await his arrival, sending him by the size of which should indicate the character 152 Bandelier, A. F., Contributions, pp. 122-125: ‘‘An Indian village in Central Sonora.’’ This is not the place known as San Ludovie de Vacapa, although Father Kuehne was under the impression that it was. Fr. Marcos, in the course of a month could not possibly have traveled so far north. The inhabitants of Matapa spoke the Opata or Pima language, in the opinion of Bandelier. A Jesuit Mission was founded here in 1629. MI |