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Show 540 KINO'S FOURTH ARIZONA ENTRADA, 1697. San Pablo. At this time Father Pedro Ruiz de Con-treras was settled in the mission of Santa Maria de Suamca, with the Pueblo de Cocospera as his visita. On the 30th the Rancheria de Santa Cruz on Rio Quiburi was attacked and sacked. In September, 1697, some Pima Indians came for missionaries to Dolores, and even to Baseraca, where resided Horacio Polici, superior of the Sonoran missions. Kino accompanied them, arriving at Baseraca Oct. 6. He returned at once to Dolores; and on Nov. 2 left that mission to join an important military and ecclesiastical expedition at Quiburi. Mange was with him, and the route is given much more fully in Mange's Capitulo Quinto, p. 275 seq., than in Ortega's narrative. They went from Dolores to Reme-dios, 2d; to Cocospera, 4th; San Lazaro and Santa Maria Suamca, 5th; San Joaquin Basosuma, 6th; a place they called Santa Cruz Gaibanipitea or Gaibau-ipetea, 7th, 8th; where they joined Captain Cristobal M. Bernal with 22 soldiers; Quiburi, 9th. Thence, starting on the nth, they went down Rio Quiburi ( present Rio San Pedro), passing places called Alamos, nth; Baicadeat, 12th; Causae and El Rosario or Jiaspi, 13th; Muiva, San Pantaleon Aribaiba, 14th; Tutoida or Zutoida, Comarsuta, and Victoria de Ojio, 15th; and noting on this day two other rancherias, Busac and Tubo, east of the line of march. On the |