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Show 534 KINO'S SECOND ARIZONA ENTRADA, 1692. However, the latter clearly states that the priests pushed on to San Cayetano Tumagacori ( sic); and this place being close to Tubac Kino now makes his first entrada into Arizona, at or near our recent Fort Mason, on the Santa Cruz river. The fathers then went to Santa Maria de Suamca, a place almost on our boundary, east of Los Nogales; and thence to Cocospera, easily found on a modern map. There they separated, Kino tarrying awhile, and Salvatierra returning from his extended tour of inspection. Early in September, 1692, Kino returned to Suamca, presumably starting from his own mission of Dolores, which he had meanwhile regained; he is also said to have pushed on to San Xavier del Bac, thus making his second Arizona entrada, and returning to Dolores on Dec. 11, 1692. Either immediately, or early in 1693, he made a tour westward through Tubutama and thence down Rio Altar far enough to sight the Gulf of California from a hill he then or afterward called Cerro Nazareno. On this journey he was accompanied by Father Agustin Campos, who had meanwhile come to take charge of the mission of San Ignacio. At a place on the river called Ca-borca- the one still well known by this name- they found many Sobas, so named for their cacique, who were infidels, and at war with the Indians of the vicinity of Dolores. The fathers composed the diffi- |