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Show KINO'S SIXTH ARIZONA ENTRADA, 1698. 543 may accept it as a fact that he was in sight of that important point for the first time. The return trip is not very clear. Rancherias were named San Francisco, San Seraphin, Merced, San Rafael ( modern Actum); 22 leagues westward of which latter he called by the name of San Marcelo a place the natives knew as Sonoydag ( i. e., the well- known Sonoitac or Son-oita); 15 leagues from which he came to Bacapa, whence it was 40 more to Caborca; whence, via Tubu-tama, he reached Dolores about the middle of October, as he reported his journey in a letter dated the 18th or 20th. ( For some conflicting statements, cf. Bancroft, No. Mex. St., i, p. 266, note53; I have followed the Apost' Afan. This entrada is not given in Mange.) Again the thoughts of the restless Kino turned like the needle to the north; and on Feb. 7, 1699, he undertook a new entrada with Mange and Father Adan Gilg, or Adamo Gilo as Mange has it. The route from Dolores was: to San Ignacio Caborica, 7th; to Santa Magdalena de Buquivaba and Tupo, 8th; San Pedro del Tubutama, 9th; Saric, Busanic, and Tucubavia, 10th; Guvoverde, nth; a spring of crystalline water they called Santa Eulalia, 12th; past a watering- place in vicinity of which was a high castellated rock they named Area de Noe or Noah's Ark, 13th; continued westward, 14th; to San Rafael, Ac- 1 |
