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pagan Indians of the Gila; and he was very well received by them,
even with demonstrations of much affection. He reported this to
the viceroyalty; and a decree was issued by the government in the
time of the Caballero de Croa [Croix] that four missions be estab-
lished on the Rio Gila and two on the Colorado. But this order
was not carried out because of the retirement of this viceroy to
the peninsula [Spain]. Father Garc6s repeated his visits to the
pagan Indians mentioned, and extended them also to the country
of the so-called Opas and Cocomaricopas, passed on to the Colorado
and visited also the Yuma, Jalchedum, Cucapa and other tribes,
with no other escort or food supply than that furnished by Divine
Providence, which was propitious in those arduous journeys so
needful of that protection. In these journeys he acquired a cer-
tain knowledge of the intercommunication of these provinces with
that of California and Monterrey, as is shown by his diary which
was seen by the viceroy. A formal expedition was set on foot
which proved the truth of these important notifications; and this
expedition was accompanied by the said Father Garc6s and Rev-
erend Father Friar Juan Diaz, missionary of those frontiers. Every-
thing happened as Father Garc6s had promised, the expedition
going from this province of Sonora to Monterrey, as is plain from
the diary and map which Father Friar Juan Diaz made of that
journey.
A second expedition was commenced with the object of making a
better record of conditions and of confirming the pagan Indians
in their affection for the Spaniards, and also of conducting some
families to Monterrey by the new road. To acquire those confines
more surely, the viceroy gave instructions that three friars go
along with the expedition; and this was done by an order to the
effect that these missions should belong to Father Garc6s and the
fathers, Friar Thomas Eysarc and Friar Pedro Font. The latter
accompanied the expedition as far as the port of San Francisco
in the capacity of cosmographer and made a diary and map.
Father Friar Thomas remained in the port of Concepci6n to
negotiate with the Indians of the entire Rio Colorado regarding
the acceptance of the Faith and submission to our sovereign, while
Father Garc6s went down to the mouth of the Colorado in the
Gulf of California. Thence he went up along the entire river as
far as the Jamajaba tribe, and by a new route on to the mission
of San Gabriel de Monterrey. From there he went up as far as
the Nochi tribe, returned to the Jamajabas, and passed on to the
pueblo of Oraybe in the province of the Moqui belonging to New
Mexico. He returned by going over the same route and arrived
at his mission of San Xavier del Bac a long time after the expe-
dition, gaining by these extensive and apostolic wanderings a cer-
tain knowledge of the intercommunication of these interior prov-
inces. Of all of this Your Majesty was notified through the courtesy160
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