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Show AND TO OPEN COMMUNICATION 465 this presidio can well serve the purpose of humiliating and subduing them, the gentiles being able (*. e. 9 allowed), if we deal with them as the king commands, to come for these and other necessary things to the presidio; in which they will procure their own advantage, and we the profits that now ( accrue to) the Mo-quinos; and if thereupon it may appear expedient to prohibit to them the commerce with New Mexico, this will be the better reason for them to humble themselves and even seek the friendship of the Espanoles, to which they are at present so repugnant. Not less can this presidio serve to defend the route that there is, so far as I have seen and gone over it, to pass to Monte Rey; for, according to the idea I have formed, this will be the most fitting { mas propor-cionado): From Chiguagua18 to Janos; from Janos to bien se puede dezir, que es fingida, 6 a lo menos interesable, quando comercian con ellos, y los aborrezen." M From the city of Chihuahua there was and is a highway to the Presidio de Janos via Carmen. Thus far between the two points named the way is northward, not far from coincident with the railroad. At Carmen it turns northwestward, and passes through Galeana, Casas Grandes ( not those of Arizona!), Barranca, and Corralita, to Janos. Continuing northwest from Janos, San Bernardino is reached, almost in the extreme S. £. corner of Arizona. The route is thence to the Santa Cruz of which Garc£ s speaks, a place not on the present Santa Cruz river, but on Rio San Pedro; following down which stream its confluence with the Gila is reached at present Dudleyville, about |
