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Show BY PATH AND TRAIL. 171 exquisite poem, " The Sister of Charity, " by Gerald Griffin, unbidden, visited by memory: " Behold her, ye worldly, behold her, ye vain, Who shrink from the pathway of virtue and pain; Who give up to pleasure your nights and your days, Forgetful of service, forgetful of praise." Before we enter the sacred and historic fane, let us go back some centuries, and from the shadowy past evoke the dead that we may learn from them something of the early days of this holy place. The first white man, of whom we have any record, to visit and preach to the Pimas and Papagoes of Southern Arizona, was that great Jesuit missionary and explorer, Father Eusibio Francisco Kino. In 1691 he left the Yaquis of Sonora on his wonderful missionary tour, and on foot crossed the deserts, preaching to the Apaches, Yumas and Mari-copas on the way. Late in October, of the same year, he entered the tribal lands of the Pimas and Papagoes, and from the Pima town on the Santa Cruz, now St. Xavier del Bac, a deputation was sent to escort him to their village. When the priest entered the village, Coro, chief of the Pimas and his warriors were parading and dancing around the scalps of Apaches, whom they had defeated in battle, and before whose dark and reeking hair they were now shouting their paens of victory. Mange, the historian of the Pimas of whom the Papa-goes are a branch says that the morning after Kino's arrival, Coro paraded before him 1,200 warriors in all the glory of war bonnets, bright blankets, head dresses of eagle feathers, scalp shirts, shields of deer hide, and gloaming lances. Father Kino remained here two or three weeks, teaching and instructing the tribe in the |