This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...Franciscans, so called from the mother-house, which was an apostolic college for the propagation of the faith. The causes of the decrease in the number of the natives has been explained in preceding pages; likewise it is clear from the same pages that the natives were treated kindly by the missionaries. If ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...Franciscans, so called from the mother-house, which was an apostolic college for the propagation of the faith. The causes of the decrease in the number of the natives has been explained in preceding pages; likewise it is clear from the same pages that the natives were treated kindly by the missionaries. If Galvez had waited six months longer, his remarkable proclamation would not have been issued with the strictures which it contains. 28 All this the former missionaries had endeavored to effect for seventy years; and if they failed it was precisely because the politicians in Mexico would not lend the aid which Galvez now appears to offer. In reply to Fr. Lasuen's complaint that his Indians were destitute and needed food instead of tobacco, Galvez wrote another characteristic and interesting letter which deserves to be reproduced. It was dated La Paz, November 23d, 1768, like the two preceding documents.29 "I believe," he says, "that the best answer which I can give to Your Reverence in reply to your letter of the 22d of the previous month, is to refer to the enclosed orders and decrees, and to what you have seen commanded since September, that the warehouse of Loreto should provide the missions of the north with what is necessary and might be there. A copy of this repeated order will be forwarded to the Rev. Fr. Palou, to whom it is directed in order that he give notice to all the Rev. missionary Fathers of that department. "I will only add on this point that nothing will remain undone to relieve the needy missions than that Your Reverence, as you are in the same predicament with your mission, pray with it to the Lord to quiet the northwinds, so that the two boats, which I shall send with provisions from here very soon, may have a quick and safe...
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