Report of an excursion into Pimería Alta and to the California gulf, 1702 / by Eusebio Francisco Kino.

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Report of an excursion into Pimería Alta and to the California gulf, 1702 / by Eusebio Francisco Kino.

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Kino's report to Father Antonio Leal describes his expedition from the Mission Dolores in Pimería Alta to the Gila River and down the Colorado River to the Gulf of California. His report chronicles the reaction of local Indians and their baptism by Kino and his companion Padre Manuel Gonzalez. The report covers physical discoveries--that California is not an island--as well as recommendations for further missionary work.

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Gonzaléz, Manuel, 1645-1702.

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Kino, Eusebio Francisco, 1644-1711

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Jesuit missionary assigned in 1687 to the Pimeria Alta, Viceroyalty of Mexico. From the description of Report of an exploration, written at Mission Dolores, Pimeria Alta, 1699. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 31688441 Eusebio Francisco Kino (1644-1711), Jesuit missionary and explorer in Mexico and the American Southwest, became a priest at the age of twenty-one and in 1681 went to Mexico. He led an unsuccessful attempt to settle Lower California in 1683 and was ...