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presidio to Mexico, he made in Mexico the itinerary which is con-
tained in his above cited declaration, and also a map. An Eng-
lishman who then resided in this court made a map from the Rio
de la Palizada as far as New France [Canada], constructing it
from the information which the declarant gave him. When fin-
ished it was entrusted to Moro, in order that he might give it to
His Excellency, as Moro had been ordered to make such a map.
Asked if he noted the longitude and latitude of Mobile, Masa-
era, Natchitoches, Asinais, Presidio del Rio Bravo del Norte, and
other places between Mexico and the Mississippi, he said that
he did not take the bearings because he did not know the altitude
in which these rivers and places are and did not know how to
ascertain it. He was guided by his computation of leagues ac-
cording as he walked on his journeys from morning to mid-day
and from mid-day to night, and by directions of the winds. In
this manner he explained his trip to Moro and to the English-
man in order that he might make the map from La Palizada to
New France. No map was made from the Rio de la Palizada to
the presidio.
Asked at what time he set out from the presidio for Mobile he
said that he set out on the twenty-sixth of April of the past year,
1716; that he arrived at Mobile early in September; that he set
out from Mobile for the presidio on October the second, or first,
and that he arrived among the Tejas early in December. He was
among the Tejas until the month of March in order to provide
corn for the six missions which were founded there, two of which
the declarant founded: he located and constructed them for Father
Margil-one named San Miguel, as he recalls it, and the appel-
lation of the other he does not know.1" At his personal expense
he has maintained these two missions with corn, on account of
little having been sown among the Tejas due to want of hoes for
cultivating the soil. The declarant went to Natchitoches to buy
maize of the Indians in order to conduct it to the Tejas. This
15Probably the one among the Ays called Nuestra Sefiora de los Dolores.
This and San Miguel de Linares, which was among the Adays, were some-
what apart, to the east and southeast of the other four, being established
later when the presence of the French on the Red River was discovered.
The others were San Francisco, among the Nacoches, the first to be
founded; Purissima Concepci6n, among the Asinais; Nuestra Sefiora de
Guadalupe, among the Nacogdoches; and San Joseph, among the Noaches.-
Clark, op. cit., pp. 1-26.172
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