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Show 550 KINO'S ELEVENTH ARIZONA ENTRADA, 1701. burcopota, 8 leagues west over desert, and only two leagues from the coast, which was reached on the 21st. This was at a point where the gulf was judged to be 12 leagues wide, perhaps at or near modern Adair bay. Geodetic and other observations were made which satisfied both padres, but not Mange, that California was a peninsula. It being judged im-. possible to ascend the coast to the head of the gulf the party started back on the 23d, and retraced their steps to Sonoita. They were there and thereabouts, with some short side trips, till April 6, when Salva-tierra started to go direct to Dolores, en route for Guaymas; while Kino and Mange proceeded eastward via San Rafael, Merced, and San Seraphin to San Xavier del Bac on the 9th; whence, continuing southward by the regular route I have several times indicated, they reached Dolores April 14 or 16. This is the last we have of Mange's itineraries. Fulfilling his pledge to Salvatierra, Kino planned another tour of exploration and evangelization, which he hoped would be less futile than the last. Leaving Dolores on Nov. 3, 1701, he traveled by Remedios, Cocospera, San Lazaro, San Luis de Babi, and San Simon, to Busanic. There, leaving Tubutama and Caborca aside, he took a new route to San Marcelo Sonoita, by places called Rancheria de Ooltan ( otherwise San Estanislao de Ooltan), Rancheria de Anamic |