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Show BY PATH AND TEAIL. 175 Eusebio Francisco Kuhne or, as the Spaniards pro nounced it, Kino, was born at Trent, Austrian Tyrol, in the year 1640. He was a blood relation of the famous Asiatic missionary, Father Martin- Martin. After grad uating with honors, particularly in mathematics, Kino declined the chair of mathematics in the University of Bavaria, tendered to him by the Duke of Bavaria. Turn ing aside from the promise of a distinguished future in Austria, he entered the Society of Jesus, and asked for a place on the foreign missions. Arriving in Mexico in 1680, the year of Newton ' s comet, he was drawn into a friendly discussion on the origin of comets and the solar system, with the Spanish astronomer, then in Mexico City, Siguenza y Gongora. His remarkable familiarity with authorities and his great knowledge of the solar sys tems, determined his assignation to duty in Lower Cali fornia as cosmographer major on Admiral Isidore ( Hondo's expedition of 1683. Eeturning from Lower California, he was assigned by his ecclesiastical superior to the mission of Sonora, which then embraced all southern Arizona. On Decem ber 16, 1687, he left the Jesuit college at Guadalajara, and traveling by burro and on foot, arrived in Sonora, where he founded the mission of " Our Lady, of Sor rows, ' ' which remained his headquarters until his death. Now begins his wonderful career. Leaving his Indian mission in charge of an assistant priest, he struck out for the Mayo hunting grounds, and entering the valley of the Eio Magdalena, preached to the Mayos, and gathering them in, founded the pueblo or vil lage settlement of St. Ignatius. He now swung toward the north and established among the Humori the pueblo of St. Joseph of Humoris, now known as Imuris. |