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 131

416 DOWN ARIZONA SIDE OF THE COLORADO. July 26. I went two and a half leagues south down river, and arrived at the rancheria of the Jamajabs that I had named San Pedro. 1 July 27. I went one league south to another ranch­eria. All this ( way) is populated. July 28. I went three leagues southeast to arrive at the Rancherias de la Pasion, 2 where I was detained two days [ July 29, 30], because they all wished to see me. Here the Jamajabs told me that the Yabipais Tejua were already friends of the Cocomaricopas, so that I could proceed through their land in four or five days, without making the former circuit to the Yumas. But as I knew that these had killed three Jalchedunes, and that both nations were much disgusted, I held it to be more advisable to take the trouble of the circuit, and proceed to visit them both, in order to reconcile them; investigating first the feeling of the Jalchedunes in this matter, and their disposition for the catechism and vassalage of his Majesty, such being my principal com­mission to the nations of the Rio Colorado; and hav­ing to leave one of the nations without making them * And made to be in lat 350 01', Mar. 3. The position is a little below Fort Mojave: see note *, p. 234. Observe that Garces now goes down the Colorado on the Arizona side. * So named Feb. 28: see p. 226 for the position of these ran­cherias, which were on the Arizona side of the river.