The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . on the rivers Pepiri-guaza and San An-tonio. The area of the land awarded Brazil was11,823 square miles; population, 7,000. MISREPRESENTATION. See Fraud, , p. 726; and Deceit and False Pretenses,in these Supplements. MISSION INDIANS, the tribes of AmericanIndians which were gathered around the Cali-fornian mission houses. These missions were firstestablished by Charles III of Spain, in 1767, andthe Jesuits undertook to civilize and Christianizethe Indians in California. Junipero Serra wastheprime move
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . on the rivers Pepiri-guaza and San An-tonio. The area of the land awarded Brazil was11,823 square miles; population, 7,000. MISREPRESENTATION. See Fraud, , p. 726; and Deceit and False Pretenses,in these Supplements. MISSION INDIANS, the tribes of AmericanIndians which were gathered around the Cali-fornian mission houses. These missions were firstestablished by Charles III of Spain, in 1767, andthe Jesuits undertook to civilize and Christianizethe Indians in California. Junipero Serra wastheprime mover and heart of the enterprise, and thegood results were due largely to him. The originof the Indians of the country is not known, butthey were of a more docile nature than the neigh-boring tribes, and took naturally to agricultureand peaceful pursuits. The present Mission In-dians are composed mostly of branches of theShoshone and Yuman stock of Indians, and livein southern California. MISSISSIPPI has an area of 46,810 squaremiles,of which 470 are water surface, and 46,340, or 29,-. SEAL OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. 657,600 acres, are land surface. In 1S90 thepopulation was 1,289,600,— in 1900 (12th census),the population was 1,551,270. The rank amongthe states in iSSo ^vas eighteenth; that of 1890,twenty-first; the of population at the first-mentioned date being to the squaremile; in1900, it was In 1900, 41,094 citizens ofthe state resided in the three cities, the per cent ofurban population being but of the whole, thesmallest, in this respect, of that of any state in theUnion. The division among the sexes in 1S90 was649,687 males and 639,913 females; the native-born population was , and the num-ber of negroes 742,559,—an increase since 1880 of92,268. Agriculture has received a great stimulus in thetime intervening since 1880, prior to which timecotton was the chief staple and engaged the atten-tion of fully, three fourths of t
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