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Show 532 KINO'S EARLIEST FOUNDATIONS. Kino left Guadalaxara Dec. 16, arrived at Ures in Sonora in February, 1687, and on March 13 reached the place where he founded the first mission, Nuestra Senora de los Dolores. The name " Dolores " is still on our maps, at the head of that branch of Rio de Sonora indifferently called Rio de San Miguel and Rio de Horcasitas, next above Cucurpe. He went 10 leagues westward to a place called Caborca- to be carefully distinguished from the better known Caborca, much further west, on Rio Altar- and there founded a pueblo called San Ignacio; this was in the close vicinity of modern Magdalena, on Rio Magda-lena ( also called Rio San Ignacio). Thence going northward to a suitable spot, he founded a second pueblo, San Jose de Himeris, now best known as Imuris, on the same Magdalen river; and at a like distance eastward, a third pueblo, Nuestra Senora de los Remedios. All these in the same year, 1687; and to the end of his life " Our Lady of Sorrows " continued to be Kino's home or headquarters- close to the " Remedies " of the same lady. Soon after 1687 the pueblos thus founded were divided into two missions, of which Dolores and Remedios were one, San Jose and San Ignacio ( Imuris and Caborca) were another, the former in charge of Kino, the latter in that of another Jesuit. Affairs were satisfactory, in spite of el Demonio, |