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Updated: May 6, 2025
At San Deigo, the first overland emigrants by the route of the Gila river, who had reached that place a few days before, came on board, lank and brown as the ribbed sea-sand, their clothes in tatters, their boots replaced with moccasins, small deerskin wallets containing all that was left of the abundant stores with which they started their hair and beards matted and unshorn, with faces from which the rigid expression of suffering was scarcely relaxed.
Some had come by the way of Santa Fe, along the savage Gila hills some had crossed the Great Desert, and taken the road from El Paso to Sonora some had passed through Mexico, and, after beating about for months in the Pacific, had run into San Deigo and abandoned their vessel some had landed weary with a seven months' voyage round Cape Horn while others had wandered on foot from Cape St.
Many of the wealthy men there are in favor of annexation, it is said, but they have to keep silent on the subject for fear of noisy patriots, who would proclaim them traitors at once, if they made a parade of their inclinations. The San Antonio and San Deigo mail passes through Tueson once a fortnight, and seems to have met with no important obstacle yet.
Lucas to San Deigo, over frightful deserts and rugged mountains, a distance of nearly fifteen hundred miles, as they were obliged to travel. The Gila emigrants spoke with horror of the Great Desert west of the Colorado a land of drought and desolation vast salt plains and hills of drifting sand; the trails which they followed sown white with bones of man and beast.
Of the line that settled in Andalusia, Deigo de Cervantes, Commander of the Order of Santiago, married Juana Avellaneda, daughter of Juan Arias de Saavedra, and had several sons, of whom one was Gonzalo Gomez, Corregidor of Jerez and ancestor of the Mexican and Columbian branches of the family; and another, Juan, whose son Rodrigo married Dona Leonor de Cortinas, and by her had four children, Rodrigo, Andrea, Luisa, and Miguel, our author.
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