On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776; translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manuscript, and ed., with copious critical notes . SAN DIEGO MISSION NOTED. 207 have on our side the nations of the river, not onlyin order that we may be able to pass whenever it may made, so called from St. James of Alcala in Spain, a Franciscanfriar who lived 1400-63, was canonized 1588, and still has hisday on Nov. 12. About 40 persons of all sorts formed
On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776; translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manuscript, and ed., with copious critical notes . SAN DIEGO MISSION NOTED. 207 have on our side the nations of the river, not onlyin order that we may be able to pass whenever it may made, so called from St. James of Alcala in Spain, a Franciscanfriar who lived 1400-63, was canonized 1588, and still has hisday on Nov. 12. About 40 persons of all sorts formed thesettlement at the Indian rancheria Cosoy, identical with modernOld Town on the bay, on Sunday, July 16, 1769, when PadreJunipero Serra formally started the establishment by raisingand blessing the cross and executing the other ecclesiasticalfunctions which were to put to flight all the hosts of hell andsubject to the mild yoke of our holy faith the barbarity of thegentile Dieguinos. But these gentile, though not gentle, bar-barians were a squalid and stolid set who did not fancy a yokeof any sort, and preferred to go scot-free in the ways to whichthey had been used, as we shall see. The original site of themission, and of the presidio founded there very soon after-ward, did no
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