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Show 174 BY PATH AND TKAIL. upon the now historic ruins known as the Casa Grande. I have once or twice mentioned the name of Father Eusebio Kino, a distinguished missionary and a heroic character, who merits more than an incidental reference in a book of travel, or in a history of Northern Mexico, or of the Southwest of the United States. Adolph Bandelier, Charles F. Lummis, and that inde fatigable historical burrower and delver into musty man uscripts, the late Dr. Elliott Coues, have settled for all time, that neither Coronado nor any one of his men ever saw or heard of the " Casas Grandes" the great build ings of Southern Arizona. The Jesuit priest, who was the first white man to see and explore the mysterious building was Father Eusebio Kino, one of the most il lustrious and heroic men that ever trod the Southwest, if not the American continent. The record of the trav els and missionary labors of this magnificent priest are to be found in Bancroft's History of Arizona and Sonora, in Elliott Coues' " On the Trail of a Spanish Pioneer," in the " Diario" of Juan Mateo Mange, a military officer who was with Padre Kino in some of his " entradas," or expeditions, and in the first volume of the second series of the work entitled " Documentos para lo His-torio de Mexico, ' ' printed in Mexico City in 1854. Lieu tenant Mange, in his journal, writes of Father Kino, whom he knew intimately: " He was a man of wonder ful talents, an astronomer, a mathematician, and cosmo-grapher. ' ' Before I relate the incidents associated with the dis covery of the now famous ruins, the Casas Grandes, by Father Kino, let me hurriedly record something of the life and history of this remarkable priest and model mis sionary. |