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Show SIERRA DE SAN ILDEFONSO. 419 which end had they killed much wild meat. Soon as he delivered this message to the Jamajabs he returned without my seeing him, as I desired to do, in order to reward him and to send by him many regrets, with the reasons why I was not going there on this occasion. Aug. 1. Having traveled two leagues south I reached the Sierra de San Ildefonso, 4 which the river traverses; hereunto extend the lands of my beloved particular benefactors the Jamajabs, whose nation appears to me the best adapted, as well by its temper as by the situation where it abides, for the founding of missions. Aug. 2, 5, 4, 5. I traveled down river fourteen leagues southward, with some deflections to the southeast and southwest, over ground rough enough, without trees and without grass. On the 5th day I found a river to which I gave the name of ( Rio) de Santa Maria. 5 This river has a very wide bed, but on 4 Sierra de San Ildefonso is of course the Mojave range, " which the river traverses" in the Mojave cation, beginning above at the Needles: see note •*, p. 227, at date of Feb. 28, when Garces first crossed this range, " which ends on the Rio Colorado," but did not then give it any name. • Rio de Santa Maria is Bill Williams' river or fork of the Colorado, the largest branch in Arizona between the Gila and the Colorado Chiquito. Garces is not to be credited with actual discovery of this stream, for it had been located and named long before. Perhaps it was passed by Alarcon in * |