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...Hodge, commanding the XXIV Corps (7th and 96th Divisions), called the fighting the fastest in the Pacific war, observed that "the Japs will run if they have a place to run to ... they are running in all di rections." Jap pillboxes were flimsily constructed. When Lieut. General Shiro Ma-kino's 16th Division men counterattacked, they came not in overpowering thousands, but in driblets of 50 to 200 men who were easily mowed down by machine-gun fire...
...Eusebio Kino was born in the village of Segno, in the Tyrolese Alps, probably on Aug. 10, 1645. Educated in the Jesuit College at Trent, he became a member of the Order in 1665, studied at Ingolstadt, became a mathematician and cartographer, planned to become a missionary to China. Traveling by way of Genoa to Spain, Kino was ordered to Mexico, shipwrecked, studied the great comet of 1680, began a long correspondence with the devout Duchess of Aveiro y Arcos before he landed at Vera Cruz on Sept. 25, 1681. He died 30 years later in northwestern Mexico after having...
...maps gave Europe its first essentially accurate picture of Southwest North America, were widely pirated. Late in life Kino wrote his autobiography and, although later Jesuit historians often referred to the book, the manuscript was lost until 1907, when it was discovered in Mexico City by Herbert Eugene Bolton, professor of history at the University of California. A brisk, concise volume, Kino's account of his life, together with his "chatty" letters to the Duchess and others, gives one of the clearest pictures available of the daily life in the missions that were established more than 30 years before...
Professor Bolton now offers a 644-page biography of Kino that brings together the results of more than 30 years of study. It is a strange and pleasant book, complete with maps and long quotations from Kino, in which the story is often interrupted with discussions of the author's own trips over the routes Kino followed. Retracing Kino's steps has given Professor Bolton a feeling of familiarity with his hero. He writes of the great explorer informally as "not a man to cry over spilled milk," of his finding life no "bed of roses...
...Christendom begins with a general account of the work of the Jesuits in New Spain, skips back to Kino's life, soon settles down to a detailed account of his wanderings (and Professor Bolton's), with incidental records of Indian rebellions, church intrigue, disputes with provincial authorities. Not a book to be read hastily, it is nevertheless of cumulative interest to readers who enjoy an abundance of facts on which their imaginations can dwell. And industrious Father Kino and Professor Bolton make a pair of travelers whose exploits are likely to remain in the memory long after...