MCGEEl FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION 1721 G9 



northward iirouud tlie outer coast, and thus circunniavigatlng: Tibu- 

 roii. While ITgarte's i)ilot, (luilermo Estrafort (or Strafort),' dis- 

 played great energy and courage in charting the coast, the voyage 

 neither yiehled published maps nor attectiMl current and subse(|uent 

 cartography; for, although Ugarte's narrative and Estrafort's niaj) and 

 journal were sent to Mexico to be presented to the viceroy, they were 

 apparently lost.- Nor does the itinerary indicate recognition of Kino's 

 error in identitication of the Seri island, though several days were 

 occupied ill voyaging from the island to the latitude of (^aborca ; indeed, 

 it seems probable that it was either Salvatierra, Kino's intimate asso- 

 ciate, or Ugarte, Kino's colleague and Salvatierra's intimate friend, 

 who fixed tiie name of the pioneer padre on the geographic features 

 still known as lialiia Kino and Punta Kino — features which Kino never 

 knew, as already shown. 



Although both Salvatierra and Ugarte were on superficially aiiiicable 

 terms with the Seri, the amity was evidently of the shallowest and 

 most evanescent sort. Veuegas says: 



Of the Seris iiud Tcpocus, altlioush the padre ])a8Se(l among tliem with the jiay in 

 his hand, he could not inducu them to assist him in any way, even when they saw 

 the party in the greatest distress; while others toiled, they reclined with the great- 

 est serenity, nor have they shown the i)rie8t8 the slightest civility during the forty 

 years of their ac(iuaintance — they utterly refused to part with ollas of coarse ware, 

 even for a liberal exchange. ' 



And the contemporary lore, crystallized in current administrative 

 j)olicy and later records, and corroborated by deep-rooted customs 

 maintained for centuries and still persisting, is significant; it indicates 

 that then, as now, it was the habit of the Tiburon islanders to flee 

 from or fawn upon powerful visitors, to ambush or assail by night 

 parties of moderate strength, to openly attack none but the weak or 

 defenseless, yet ever to delight in tricking the credulity and consuming 

 the stores and stock of aliens, and to revel in shedding alien blood when 

 occasion offered. The adventurous hunters and gold seekers of the 

 mainland, and the still hardier i)earl fishers of the coast," wrote noth- 

 ing; but both civil and ecclesiastical records imply common knowledge 

 that weaker parties venturing into the purlieus of Serilaud never 

 returned — they disappeared and left no sign. 



While Salvatierra and .Ugarte were occupied on the coast, the 

 missionaries were no less industrious in the interior. The mission of 

 Santa Magdalena de Tepoca was apparently soon abandoned; but the 

 so-called Seri missions at I'opulo ( Nuestra Sefiora del "opulo ) and 

 Angeles (JSTuestra Sefiora de los xVngeles) were maintained from the 

 time of Kino's coming up to the expulsion of the Jesuits (in 1707), 

 while that at Nacameri was nearly as well sustained. The relations 



' An Euglishmau named (probably) William Strafford, according to liaucrol't ; op. cit, vol. i, p. 444. 



2 Vene^^as, Noticia de la California, tonic n. p. 370. 



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