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Show CASE OF THE TWO BACAPAS. 487 says have I seen. The pueblo of Bacapa, of which it makes mention, is found to- day by the name of Qui-tobaca, in Papaguera. 83 Apa in Pima language Mexico at Vera Cruz about the beginning of that year, and was viceroy until November, 1549, when he was succeeded by Don Luis de Velasco. After a short interval he became viceroy of Peru, Sept. 23, 1551. He was regarded as a righteous ruler, of austere personal habits, perfect integrity, and great administrative ability. " See note ", p. 481, regarding the Bacapa or Vacapa of the Marcos de Niza and Coronado Relations, on the headwaters of the Rio Matape or Fuerte, near Rio Sonora. Needless to add, GarceV Bacapa or Quitobac, in Papagueria, is a different one of the places so called, near the boundary line of southwestern Arizona, and not the central Sonoran village Garc6s mistook it for. Mr. Hodge furnishes the following note regarding it: Bacapa was a Papago rancheria in the " Papagueria" of northwestern Sonora, not far below the present Arizona boundary. It was visited in 1700 by Kino and Mange, who applied to it the name San Luis de Bacapa (" St. Ludlovic de Vacapa/* " San Ludlov de Bacapa," " San Luis Beltram de Bacapa," etc., according to various citations). The saint name was retained by Anza and Font ( 1774), but the name of the settlement seems to have been changed to Quitobac, and later to Quitovaquito. The etymology of the names is doubtful. Both Garces and Buelna ( Geog. Indig. de Sinaloa, 1887) assert that the term contains the element bac or bacaf tule, carrizo, but there is no doubt that the former erred in interpreting the prefix quito as a Spanish diminutive. The name Bacapa was applied by Marcos de Niza in 1539 to Matape, on a river of the same name much farther southeastward, and this has misled some students in attempting to trace the route of that friar and of Coronado the following year.- F. W. H. |