The Spanish borderlands; a chronicle of old Florida and the Southwest . f Ba-varia. He rejected the offer and vowed himself tothe missionary service, as a follower of Saint Fran-cis Xavier, to whose intercession he attributed hisrecovery from a serious illness. He had hoped togo to the Far East, literally to follow in the foot-steps of his patron, but there came a call formissionaries in New Spain and hither he cameinstead. Arriving in 1681, he proceeded two yearslater, as rector of missions, with an expeditiondesigned to colonize the peninsula of natives, though among the lowes
The Spanish borderlands; a chronicle of old Florida and the Southwest . f Ba-varia. He rejected the offer and vowed himself tothe missionary service, as a follower of Saint Fran-cis Xavier, to whose intercession he attributed hisrecovery from a serious illness. He had hoped togo to the Far East, literally to follow in the foot-steps of his patron, but there came a call formissionaries in New Spain and hither he cameinstead. Arriving in 1681, he proceeded two yearslater, as rector of missions, with an expeditiondesigned to colonize the peninsula of natives, though among the lowest in intelli-gence and morality of any tribes in America, wereunwarlike and tractable on the whole. But aprolonged drought on the mainland, the base forsupplies, caused the abandonment of the enterprise. THE MISSION OF SAN CARLOS, NEAR Lithograph from a sketch by Captain W. Smyth, InCalifornia, a History, by Alexander Forbes (1839). M^ k\v{ao^\iko ? ccnsiM., , • ?.?? nl . ,di^in8 .W niaJqaO vd doisjla b moil liqisiso^^^ fWJ^jS-. JESUITS ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE 193 Destiny reserved for Kino a more promisingfield. Missions had already been established overall of southern and eastern Sonora. But beyond,to the west and north, lay the virgin territory ofPimeria Alta, home of the upper Pimas, a regionwhich comprised what is now northern Sonora andsouthern Arizona. At that day it was all includedin the district of Sonora, to which it belonged until1853, when the northern portion was cut off by theGadsden Purchase. Father Kino arrived in Pimeria Alta in March,1687, the very month when La Salle met his deathin the wilds of central Texas, and began a termof service that was to last for twenty-four frontier mission station when he arrived wasat Cucurpe, in the valley of the river now calledSan Miguel. Cucurpe still exists, a quiet littleMexican pueblo, sleeping under the shadow ofthe mountains, and inhabited by descendants ofIndians who were there in
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