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Show KINO'S NINTH ARIZONA ENTRADA, I7OO. 547 It is just now at the turn of the years 1699- 1700 that Kino receives from his biographer the crowning title of Apostle of the Pimas: " nuestro insigne grande Jesuita, a quien por su incansable afan en alumbrar a esta tan numerosa Nacion, con razon pudieramos Uamar Apostol de los Pimas," says Ortega, p. 280. The year 1700 was the eighteenth of the apostle's - active operation on souls. On March 29, he received at Dolores from some Cocomaricopas a present of blue seashells, such as had already excited his geographical curiosity when he was among the Yumas; and this started him off on a new exploration. He left Dolores April 21, passed through Cocospera, and continued by San Luis Guevavi to San Cayetano Tumacacori, 5 leagues beyond which he was in the Rancheria de los Reyes, and thence proceeded to San Xavier del Bac. Here he enquired about seashells to no purpose; but the occasion is memorable as that on which he laid the foundations of a large church, of the light workable stone which Ortega calls tu-zontle, and others tetzontli- certainly the foretelling if not actually the beginning of the historic edifice still standing in Bac. He regained Dolores May 5. On Sept. 24, 1700, our " incansable Operario de la vina del Senor " started for the Gila by a mostly new route. He went from Dolores by way of Remedios, San Simon y San Judas, San Ambrosio de Busanic, |