On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garces (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776; translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manscript, and ed., with copious critical notes

On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776; translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manscript, and e - Page 267

* 552 KINO'S THIRTEENTH ARIZONA ENTRADA, 1702. that he was in California, and that that was not an island. He recrossed the Colorado to the east side, retraced his steps to San Dionisio and San Pedro del Gila, and by the same route he had come, through San Marcelo de Sonoitac, he went on to Dolores, reaching home Dec. 7, 1701. Kino's map, supposed to be of 1701, has often been published. It was then, and long remained, by far the best delineation of Sonora, southern Arizona, and the gulf coast of Lower California. But the holy father was not yet to rest from his weary work. The possibility that California might after all be an island haunted his imagination, and the devil was still busy in partibus inHdelium. Therefore he left Dolores Feb. 5, 1702, starting on what proved to be his last entrada northward, in com­pany with Father Francisco Gonzalez, the missionary at Oposura. ( This brother missionary is named Francisco Gonzalez in Bancroft, i, pp. 259 and 500, as being with Kino in November and December, 1701. He is apparently the Manuel Gonsalez given in Rudo Ensayo, p. 132, as having accompanied Kino to. the mouth of the Colorado.) They passed through Remedios, San Simon, Busanic, San Estanislao, Santa Eulalia, Santa Sabina, San Martin, and San Rafael,, to San Marcelo ( Sonoita); whence by the same route as before they reached San Dionisio at the mouth of