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 142

RIO COLORADO RECROSSED. 42/ through whom I had passed without any such thing happening to me. Bestirred themselves thereat the old men, and they did operate with such lively diligence upon the thieves, that restitution was effected of all that which had been stolen, though the cloak did come back in rags ( valbid hecho pedazos), through no fault of theirs. I tarried here the 15th day. Aug. 16. I went one league and a half south, with some declination southeast. Aug. 17. I traveled one league in the same direc­tions, and halted in a rancheria where there was a very great chieftain ( un capitano mux principal), who bore himself well with us, regaling us with el6tes, whereof were there many. To this rancheria and to all those contiguous I gave the name Lagrimas de San Pedro. 18 Aug. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. I traveled five leagues and one half southsouthwest, and passed by two ranch-erias and some ranchos, detaining myself in the first one a day, and on the last of these [ t. e., the 22d] they passed me on a raft over the river, on whose op­posite bank I found a rancheria. 14 n The tears of St. Peter were shed along the Californian side of the river, nearly opposite La Paz and thence downward oppo­site Ehrenberg and Mineral City. 14 Crossing back again to the Arizona side of the river, ap­parently below Mineral City.