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Show AT THE MOUTH OF THE COLORADO, IJ02. 553 the Gila, Feb. 28. The next day they went down to Santa Isabel; and leaving to the right San Felix de Valois and La Presentacion, they reached a large Quiquima rancheria which they named San Rude-sindo. Continuing southward, they found on the 4th rancherias of the same nation to one of which they gave the name of San Casimiro; on the 5th they were at tidewater; on the 6th they failed in attempting to cross the river from its left to right shore, and on the 7th they reached the very mouth of Rio Colorado, at a point where nothing but land could be seen on the south, west, and north. On the 8th they were, besought by natives to cross to the California side, but did not do so; they were told of a certain Rio Ama-rillo in that direction, and that in eight or ten days they might reach the opposite seacoast. But Father Gonzalez was sick; Kino essayed a cut across country to Sonoita, which proved impracticable; and so the return was by the way they had come, through Santa Isabel, San Dionisio, and so on, to Sonoita on the 22d. Here the witness of Kino's first and last view of the mouth of the river grew worse; at Santa Sabina he received the viaticum; at Tubutama he was dying, at San Ignacio dead. Kino wrote his report of this entrada April 2; he never saw the Gila or Colorado again. This year of 1702 the veteran missionary was as- |