The Missions and Missionaries of California, Volume 1

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James H. Barry, 1908
Comprehensive history of the Jesuit, Franciscan, and Dominican missionaries in Lower California and of the Franciscans in Upper California.
 

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Pagina 272 - This cover being removed there were found instructions concerning the measures to be adopted in the arrest of the Jesuits, naming the men who were to do the work, and telling how they should do it. On removing the last wrapper the full order was found expressed in the following terms: "I invest you with my whole authority and royal power that you shall forthwith repair with an armed force (a mano armada) to the house of the Jesuits.
Pagina 273 - ... de una vez para lo venidero deben saber los súbditos del gran monarca que ocupa el trono de España, que nacieron para callar y obedecer y no para discurrir, ni opinar en los altos asuntos del gobierno.
Pagina 599 - This sum of $1,420,682.67 will totally extinguish the annuities accrued and not paid by the Government of the Mexican Republic — that is to say, the annuity of $43,050.99 Mexican from February 2, 1869, to February 2, 1902. 3. The Government of the Republic of the United Mexican States shall pay to the Government of the United States of America on February 2, 1903, and each following year on the same date of February 2, perpetually, the annuity of $43,050.99 Mexican, in money having legal currency...
Pagina 99 - Contrition, the Ten Commandments of God, the Precepts of the Church, the Seven Sacraments, the Six Necessary Points of Faith, and the Four Last Things of Man.
Pagina 157 - ... other times blew, but both as hard as they were able, supposing that thus the disease was either exhaled or dispersed. Sometimes the tube was filled with cimarron or wild tobacco lighted, and here they either sucked in or blew down the smoke, according to the physician's direction...
Pagina 45 - ... judicious persons of satisfactory reputation to assist him, and that he be admonished to regard them as examples of the prudence and consideration he should observe and the tact with which he should proceed ; that he be reproved for the lack of prudence shown on his last voyage, particularly in having killed the Indians as he relates in his report and in having allowed the soldier who struck the Indian with the butt of his arquebus to go unpunished, and that he treat the Indians with great love...
Pagina 157 - ... patient breathes his last. It seems tedious to them to spend much time near an old, dying person that was long ago a burden to them and looked upon with indifference. A person of my acquaintance restored a girl to life that was already bound up in a deer-skin, according to their custom, and ready for burial, by administering to her a good dose of chocolate.
Pagina 58 - ... Your Majesty in continuing this exploration, as I did on the voyage to California and on many others, of which I have given account to your royal council in carefully and exactly prepared documents which I have presented there; and I refer, furthermore, to others now forwarded, in which it is shown I have spent the greater part of my fortune and of my health.
Pagina 154 - The different tribes represented by no means communities of rational beings, who submit to laws and regulations and obey their superiors, but resembled far more herds of wild swine, which run about according to their own liking, being together to-day and scattered to-morrow, till they meet again by accident at some future time. In one word, the Californians lived, salva venia, as though they had been freethinkers and materialists...
Pagina 307 - It has long since been demonstrated impossible to reach the heart of a savage through abstract ideas of morality and elevation of character. A religion, in order to find favor in his eyes, must first meet some of his material requirements. If it is good, it will clothe him better and feed him better, for this to him is the chiefest good in life.

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