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Show KINO'S FIRST ARIZONA ENTRADA, 169I. 533 and in 1690 Kino had a church in each one of his villages. In December of that year Father Juan Maria de Salvatierra was appointed superior and vis-itador of Sinaloa and Sonora; he came to Dolores, whence he went with Kino to the other places above named; whence the two congenial spirits pushed further into Pimeria Alta, laying great plans for spiritual conquests to be extended to California and elsewhere. Ortega, pp. 248- 252, names places visited on this entrada of 1691 as follows: From Dolores by way of Santa Maria Magdalena pueblo and a land called el Tupo to the mission of San Pedro y San Pablo de Tubutama ( on Rio Altar: place still so called, and probably in 1691 not yet a regular mission, though Kino may have operated there); thence to Saric ( still so called, on the same river) and Tucubabia in the same vicinity. Here they were met by a delegation of Sobaipuris; from the region about the modern San Xavier del Bac and ( San Cayetano de) Tumacacori in southern Arizona, begging for padres. The fathers determined to go to ( acercarse) the Sobaipuris, and did so, says Ortega, p. 249, reaching in 15 leagues the rancheria called Guevavi where, in Ortega's time { al presente- 1752) there was a mission; but it does not appear that Guevavi was the place where the Sobaipuris were met or a mission was then founded, and all those who so state must have misread their Ortega. |