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the worthy Father particularly noticed ‘ their peace- 
‘fulness and their gentleness.”’ They were alike desi- 
rous to be baptized and instructed, a desire that Kino 
willingly gratified. He estimates their numbers at four 
thousand ; but whether or not this includes both tribes, 
is not clear. They then irrigated their lands as now; 
and had large cultivated fields of wheat. The Coco- 
Maricopas were then situated beyond the Pimos, pro- 
bably on the Salinas and Gila, below the junction. 
Father Kino, in another expedition to the Gila, took 
with him two Pimo Indians from the mission at Ures 
to act as his interpreters, which enabled him to com- 
municate freely with these tribes. —. 
In an anonymous manuscript of a Jesuit, dated 
1764, descriptive of Sonora, where he lived many 
years as a missionary, the writer speaks of the Pimos, 
who were on the precise spot where we now find them 
inhabiting both margins of the Gila. ‘The towns of 
that people,” he says, ‘‘ which occupy ten leagues of the 
mild vale along it, with some islands, abound in wheat, 
maize, ete, and yield much cotton; to them also is 
referred the fabrication of the finest kinds of pottery, 
Whose remains form one of the archeological indica-— 
tions of the Gila valley.” ee: 
_ But the most circumstantial account of the Pimos — 
1s that of Father Pedro Font, who, with Father Garces, — 
made, in 177576, a journey from the Presidio of 
Oreasitas, in Sonora, to Monterey, in California, of — 
* Extract from a MS. entitled, “ Descripcion Geografica Natural y 
osa de la Provincia de Sonora. Por un Amigo del Servicio de Dios. 
Atio de 1764,” in Mr, Schooleraft’s History, Condition, and Prospects of 
the Indian Tribes, before referred to, vol. iii. p- 304. : 
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