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Show 528 NAME AND EARLY LIFE OF KINO. Afanes. Again: In the same Documentos, etc., 3d series, vol. iv, is found the Relacion, etc., of Cristobal Martin Bernal, 1697, containing much about Kino. Consult also Alegre, Hist. Comp. Jesus, 3 vols., Mexico, 1841. Outlines of Kino's operations, derived from the foregoing and various other sources, are accessible in Bancroft's works, though somewhat inconveniently scattered through his several volumes on the North Mexican States and on Arizona and New Mexico. The real name of this great and good padre may have been Eusebius Kiihn, Kiihne, or Kuhner, which in Spanish became sometimes Chino, oftener Quino, and finally Kino. He was a native of Trent in the Austrian Tyrol, and a near relation of Father Martin Martin, S. J., a notable missionary in Asia. The date of his birth is unknown- it was about 1640. His early devotions were paid to mathematics, during his education at Ala in Tyrol, and his connection with the college of Ingolstadt in Bavaria; such being his proficiency in the science that a professorial chair was offered to him by the Most Serene Duke of Bavaria. This honorable academic preferment he declined, esteeming it only something to be sacrificed to God, and ardently desiring to be sent to the Indies for the salvation of souls. Having fancied that on one occasion he owed his recovery from sickness to the in- |