摘要：Of the thousands of native Indians known to have been living South of the 29th degree latitude in Baja California at the time of the first establishment of the Missions by the Jesuit priests at Loreto in 1700,1 after a diligent search and much inquiry and following conscientiously every tangible clue, Mr. Roberto Thompson and myself can say that we only saw possibly two pure blooded native Indians in our 1400 miles of travel and search. The Indians and most of their culture have absolutely disappeared. This search should have been made 100 or at the most 50 years ago, when a few of the older Indians might have been living and who might have been handed down some of the language and customs of their tribes. No living soul knows the languages or customs or even the names of the tribes or the latter, except through the old priest historian Juan María Clavigero.2
