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was concerned. He arrived at his mission of Bac September 
17,1776. 
On July 29, 1776, another even greater entrada was begun 
at Santa Fe by the Fray Padre Francisco Silvestre Velez Es¬ 
calante/ in his search for a route to Monterey, unaware that 
Garces had just traversed, next to that of Onate, the most 
practicable short route to be found. Garces had written 
A Court in Wolpi, Arizona. 
Drawing by F. S. Dellenbaugh. 
to Escalante, ministro doctrinero of Zuni, a letter from 
Oraibi, but as the ministro had already departed for Santa Fe, 
leaving Fray Mariano Rosate in charge at Zuni, the letter 
probably did not reach him till his return. The northern 
’ H. H. Bancroft gives a map of the route as he understands it, History of 
the Pacific States, p. 35, vol. xxv.,also a condensation of the diary. Philip Harry 
gives a condensation in Simpson’s Report, Appendix R., p. 489. Some river 
names have been shifted since Harry wrote. What we call the Grand, upper 
part, was then the Blue. 
