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Show 542 KINO'S FIFTH ARIZONA ENTRADA, 1698. rest of the route homeward was by Guevavi, 27th; San Lazaro and Santiago de Cocospera, 28th; Nues-tra Seiiora de los Remedios, 29th; Tuape, Dec. 2, reaching Dolores that day or the 3d. The round trip of this entrada was supposed to be 260 leagues, and to have nearly approached the Moquis! We have full details from various sources besides Mange's Diary, including Bernal's own official report, and a relacion by Kino himself. In the summer of 1698 Kino was sick; but by autumn he had recovered, and undertook a still more extended entrada in Arizona. The fame of Salva-tierra's exploitation of Califomian heathen had spread, and Kino was charged by the viceroy and superiors of the Jesus company with a reconnoissance of northern Pimeria and Papagueria, to see how best to send supplies from that quarter to Salvatierra on the sterile peninsula. On Sept 22 Kino started with Captain Diego Carrasco from Dolores, went via Bac to the Gila, down this river some distance, and then continued from San Andres 80 leagues southwest to the gulf, at a place he supposed to be that called Santq, Clara " by the ancient geographers/' This is uncertain; but Kino speaks of " fresh water" and " wood " there, and elsewhere says that in 1698 he saw from the Cerro Santa Clara how the gulf ended at the disembogue of the Rio Colorado; so we |
