New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-06-02
sONoRA.

he SpaEiish of General Maria JOss
pc Perez hernandez
Of the interest now attaching
4 of Sonora on account of the
colcaization scheme, we have
y for the benefit of cur readers a
upon the geography Of that
ten by General Jose Maria Perez
and published in the city OF
II h is in eight chapters, the 6rst
81 Ve publish to-day;
CHAPTER 1.
ryMoLoGY AND KIsToRx.
e, the etymology of the word Sono-
co no agreement among historians
n !. lent accounts. Some say .tha
rOr ON 'St nora, " substituting IN
DR. orm the present Sonora. Others
q opinion that the conquerors
Of the caciques denominate thus
i've valley Of more than sixty
- rhe third suppose that the primi-
rE bitants called the territory .SGR-
be- to unite in one term the rich
- soil With the sonorousness of
gold, so abundant in those
. fourth, among them especially
GUS Jesuit writer OF the eight
=. hurry (1730) surmised that the
:" AIKEN from the expression ,SoROt
.. bignifying "house or hut formed
=. Il the Indian corn, adjoining a
:" nddy water, the pronunciation
- being disagfeeable to the Span
'Tts called the province Sonora.
II part we incline to believe that
onOid is that which gave rise to
tics term, Sonora; considering the
,tsT RS enius of the opata aud pima
lvOs b the custom Of the conQuerors
ba the names which they could
Oh nee.
origin of the first inhabitants
eS @ is lost in the obscurity of ages,
rec hest aud most prolific imagina-
~ .; sseh in the confusion of con-
Of ore OF less founded, regarding
rem on Of the numerous and diverse
rocS bh formerly Inhabited this soil,
by the hand of the Creator.
ny ny an undoubted fact that Aztlan
led north Of the Gulf of Cali
az leagues from the valley of
rdsrt that is to say, that the lands of
b Sinaloa met at less than 200
lie, pm the point mentioned, and
noranese and the Sinaloanese
- bYigin, in o great measure, to
Nahuatlacas families, or some
of them, they must have
b Aztlap. This is the more
ecause twenty leagues below
ace Of the rivers Glls and San
an land belonging to the State
Apd eft bank, are seen vestiges of
.n Ne edifice and surroundings of
broad trenches, apparently for
Out ich the Indians have always
great house Of Moctezuma,
En- since the epoch OF the con-
), : S part OF the country as the
e migratory Aztecs, and from
5IC, we're supposed to nave passed
uAcan, now Culiacan, crossing
ms of Tarahumara and sepa-
rRAI years afterward in Chicomoz-
Call situated nine leagues TO the
catecas, at which spot still ex-
q S' ps Of a grand edifice.
4. ion OF the Nahaatlaeas, which
ds to have tsrried in Sonora and
pp d sFeased in numbers and held
,H i pf the territory, which did not,
Q. ap that time, comprise the whole
en9 .sna nsive region now called Sono-
cen greatly enlarged during
sast domination.
0OA boundaries at the time of the
" o. . appears from the ancient
s'I OF the Jesuits, we're; North,
3ila; east, the Sierra Madre;
;iyeT DE province OF 0stimurs, and
gent mico sea, or Gulf of Califor-
raj y three-fourths of the territory
BIL ing the district of -Guaymas
lamos as fsr as the Rio del
soUTl onio;ons -o,,oal;no a nroso,,,d
W. 4ldicious analysis, boundless
"a St eh we respect and even ven
Ks hay, which attempt to,demOn-
Deps the AZtees we're neither the
OF the SonoBese and Sinaloan
RRTyI q great Raass crossing rap
IL these regions; such opinions
upon the testimony of the
2 einS: oS: 1gs which are met a little be-
astsra luence of the San Pedro and
and for, say those who uphold
Aesl and thus far the argument is
erinsa 4 wandering people do not
- buildings nor establish the
nv Of growing civilization.
~ cheerfnlly accept this re
la H9inion did we NOT favor this
namely: The Aztec nation
H.ys ative lands by accident and
ay "a, sled direction, and each point
AT ,ssn, Preached where they met the
ies fof livelihood and power they
tste the 4aDd Of their Journey
red ky built those selid stracEarec
bat ation Of whose vestiges now
~ " ch perplexlty."
ny pro hent has impeRed us to be-
neetn M tI remnants OF theseNahuatlee
his est % did not abandon the place
to epitors Of the people inhablt-
New and Sinaloa. And in con-
this belief we have the tradi-
~ LIN Z by the old people OF the
nm ,oneerning 'the passage ct the
lom they assert thar many
@ipg tired of 80 lenethened
sAI ~ y neined by the pond OF So
T A W ean to occupy the plains,
out q oineadows Of its rivers; end
r sns M families was formed the
aembs on, O.Pats, preserving until
sw u ne IN its idiam mary words
that language. "
Of ttion Of the Mexican terri.
y v1 ~ qnestion its Ih,ost nesallifes~
neetll disaeEered by MaIcaG Nisa. :.
~ w tbs sss aye sD exaggerated account ]
ITupta eEog, Don Ante nio de Men
ne. I adueea him TO ssnd oUf, IN
smp Z loriDe expeditiGns, ono by
PlTk the scEne Niss took parfl !
.eee = nd OF the Goverh0s of New
~ 1aths iss ~; Don Francisco Vase uea
q the other by sea, ouAl-
+ ~ Fernando de Alcenan.
nav H O. Carried orders to COMMA
AT Az And aid each other. The