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Show 420 RIO DE SANTA MARIA. this occasion carried not much water; there are on its 1540; but if so, there is no particular indication of the fact. Definite knowledge of this stream goes back as far as to the early overland expedition of Juan de Onate, 1604- 05, who first named it Rio de San Andres, after St. Andrew of discipular and apostolic fame, whose day is Nov. 30- very likely actual date of the discovery, as Onate started Oct. 7, and was at tidewater of the Colorado on Jan. 23, 1605. The Amacavas or Amajavas ( Jamajabs = Mojaves) were then living both above and below its mouth; and one of Onate's men, Capt. Marquez, made a short excursus up the Colorado from this point. But the discovery went to sleep and the name lapsed; I do not know where to point to anything concerning this river till the time of Jacob Sedelmair, ca. 1744- 48, when we hear of a Rio Azul which certainly was no other than this one, to which the name Azul was sadly misapplied. Sedelmair does not seem to have reached the river, but heard of it; and an instance of its being called Rio Azul is found in the Rudo Ensayo, written in 1762, p. 130: " Between this junction [ of the Gila with the Colorado] and that of the river Azul with the Colorado, the former of which [ Rio Azul] unites with the latter [ Rio Colorado] forty leagues farther up to the north, and comes almost directly from the east, there dwells on the left bank of the Colorado the numerous Hudcoadan nation, possessed of fertile soil and fine springs. The river Azul is not large, and according to what the natives say, comes from the Province of Mogui [ Moqui], at a distance of three or four days' march." Next we have Garc6s on the spot, at or near the mouth of the river, present site of the paper-town of Aubrey, or Aubrey " city," where there was nothing to justify a name when I passed it in Sept., 1865. The name which Garces now bestows appears upon Font's map, came into general use, and is still retained for one of the two main forks of the river. The precise date of application of Bill Williams' name has escaped me, but it scarcely antedates the period of the |