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Show PRESIDIOS REQUIRED. 455 Juan de Capistrano, and the other at La Encarnacion. In the Cocomaricopa nation, two; one at San Simon y Judas de Vpasoitac, and the other at San Diego de Uitorrum. 11 In the Papago nation, one at least at Sonoitac, and by good providence another at Ati." POINT IV. Presidios Necessary. The necessary presidios, number of their soldiers, and collocation that they are to have, are at the exclusive disposition of the superior government; but if my opinion is worth anything, it is this: On the supposition that the king our lord has allowed two presidios, one for the Rio Gila and the other for the Colorado, each of these being of fifty men, there could be founded under their protection two missions on each river; and if on the Colorado it be desired to 11 Of all these missions which Garces proposed for the Colorado and Gila rivers, the only ones actually founded were the two among the Yumas, at Concepcion and San Pablo respectively, as already sufficiently indicated in the biography of Garcls and elsewhere in this work. All the localities here in mention have also been duly noted in earlier portions of the Diary. " Sonoita or Sonoitac has already been repeatedly mentioned! in this work. Ati was a place in Pimera Alta, on Rio Altar, between Tubutama and Altar; it appears as At on my blue print of a copy of Font's map, and elsewhere as Adi or Addi. |