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Show KINO'S FOURTH ARIZONA ENTRADA, 1697. 54I 16th they reached the Gila, and descended it three leagues. " El gran rio Gila" Mange calls it, and speaks of its origin south of the New Mexican pueblo Penol de Acoma. The river may have been first so called on this occasion; though the word Xila occurs in Benavides, about 1630, and though the river had been named Rio del Nombre de Jesus by Juan de Ofiate in 1604- 05, and known to the Spaniards since 1538 or 1539. During Nov. 17- 20 they traveled down the Gila, mostly at some little distance therefrom. They went eight leagues to a spring they called San Gregorio Taumaturgo, and two leagues further to San Fernando, on the river, 17th; over plains on the 18th to Casas Grandes, " dentro de las cuales dijo misa el padre Kino que hasta alia camino en ayunas," and of which great houses Mange's Diary gives more than a page of description. On the 19th, four leagues were passed over sterile plains to Tusonimon, Tusonimo, or Santa Isabel; on the 20th, seven leagues to San Andres, which was the extent of the outgoing. On the 21st they made a dry camp, on the way southward to ascend Rio Santa Cruz; 22d, camped at Santa Catarina de Cuitciabaqui; 23d, up the river to a ranch-eria in Valle de Correa and to San Agustin de Oiaur ( at or near modern Tucson, Ariz.); 24th and 25th, San Xavier del Bac, or Batosda; 26th, San Cayetano Tumacacori, where Kino left Bernal's party. The |