. The missions and missionaries of California. professed for us and the good har-mony which existed between us. This led to the result thatthe Indians, who had grown somewhat perverted in some ofthe missions, as far as stealing was concerned, became fright-ened. He said much about the manner of governing whichthe missionaries exercised in the missions, and about the doc-trine and the education which had called forth his admira-tion, and he also praised our disinterestedness and charitywhich he saw us exercise towards the Indians; this he notonly said, but after his recent arrival he also wrote
. The missions and missionaries of California. professed for us and the good har-mony which existed between us. This led to the result thatthe Indians, who had grown somewhat perverted in some ofthe missions, as far as stealing was concerned, became fright-ened. He said much about the manner of governing whichthe missionaries exercised in the missions, and about the doc-trine and the education which had called forth his admira-tion, and he also praised our disinterestedness and charitywhich he saw us exercise towards the Indians; this he notonly said, but after his recent arrival he also wrote it to theinspector-general. From all this I inferred that his respectand authority ought to aid us greatly in advancing the mis-sions. We conferred about the manner in which we shouldgo to work in founding the new missions according to thedirections of his excellency, but the delayed arrival of theFathers, as well as the lack of soldiers on the peninsula neededfor the undertaking, stopped us. 1 1 Palou, Noticias, torn, i, cap. xxii, Barris Anger; Palous Fearlessness 393 It will be remembered from the preceding chapter that inthe beginning of August, 1770, when the news of the successof the Monterey expeditions reached Mexico, the viceroy andthe inspector-general resolved to found ten new missions inaddition to those of San Fernando de Velicata, San Diego,and Monterey. For this purpose the inspector in a personalinterview informed the Fr. Guardian of the College of SanFernando that the viceroy had decided to found the missions,and that therefore the forty-four religious, who had comefrom Spain in 1770, should proceed to the peninsula and thenewly-discovered The Fr. Guardian explainedthat these Fathers were needed for hearing confessions in thecity, for giving missions throughout the country, for replac-ing the missionaries who had been withdrawn from the mis-sions in the Sierra Gorda, and for the various offices and occu-pations in the College itself. Galv
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