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Excerpt from Anza's California Expeditions, Vol. 4: Font's Complete Diary of the Second Anza Expedition; Translated From the Original Spanish Manuscript
Font is entitled to all the more credit from the fact that he was ill during most of the expedition. He was under the weather when he left Horcasitas. When he reached the Pimas he began to have chills and fever which troubled him all the way down the Gila River. Much of the time his life was made miserable by sores inside his mouth. It is not strange, therefore, that Font was pessimistic and irritable, that he found Indians disgusting, that he was not always pleased with the weather or the country. Over which he traveled, or even that he sometimes complained of Anza. But in spite of his illness and his temperament, or because of them, he wrote a superb diary - one of the best in all Western Hemisphere history, it is safe to say. In his official journal he faithfully described the itinerary, the natural features of the country, the Indians, and the Spanish establishments passed through. And then, in the private diary, he added to these official things all the gossip of the trail.
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