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Excerpt from Wayside Notes: On the Sunset Route Towards the rising sun in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana, we take our way through the very heart of early missionary fields, where paganism has given place to Christianity. The line of travel will be coincident with El Camino Real - "the King's Highway" - not, to be sure, a counterpart, or suggestion even, of the Roman Appian nor of Via Aurelia that promise to be eternal, but the loved Camino Real of the fathers - the undulating, curving, bridgeless way - marked chiefly by sandaled feet, and that served to bind each succeeding mission to the other members of the sacred family. The extreme eastern portion of it was parcel of that exploited by Ponce de Leon in 1513 (107 years before the settlement of Plymouth Colony), and Hernan de Soto's quest ended in the country we describe years before the Pilgrim Fathers had achieved their swaddling clothes. Later came Sieur de La Salle to struggle vainly against the immutable decrees of fate; and still later the Acadians, with their romantic sorrows to stimulate the inspiration of Longfellow. Within reasonable limits, answers herein should be found to anticipate the questions of the traveler. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.