. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] SAN FRANCISCO DE LA ESPADA 435 San Borja.—Venegas, Hist. Cal., ii, 198,1759. San Francisco Borja.—Taylor in Browne, Res. Pac. Slope, app., 60, 1869. "S. Borgia.—Clavigero, Storia dellaCal.,11,116,1789. S. Francesco Borgia.—Tay- lor, op. eit. San Francisco de la Espada. A Francis- can mission, founded ^lar. 5, 1731, on the a))andonment of San Francisco de los Neches (see San Francisco de los Tejas), about 9 m. below San Antonio, Texas, on the w. bank of San Antonio r. Its ruins are now known at San Antonio as '' fourth ; It was at this mission
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] SAN FRANCISCO DE LA ESPADA 435 San Borja.—Venegas, Hist. Cal., ii, 198,1759. San Francisco Borja.—Taylor in Browne, Res. Pac. Slope, app., 60, 1869. "S. Borgia.—Clavigero, Storia dellaCal.,11,116,1789. S. Francesco Borgia.—Tay- lor, op. eit. San Francisco de la Espada. A Francis- can mission, founded ^lar. 5, 1731, on the a))andonment of San Francisco de los Neches (see San Francisco de los Tejas), about 9 m. below San Antonio, Texas, on the w. bank of San Antonio r. Its ruins are now known at San Antonio as '' fourth ; It was at this mission that Fr. Bartolome Garcia wrote his famous Man- ual (1760), which preserves for us theCoa- huiltecan language. There were brought from the Frio and Nueces rs. (Espinosa conveys a wrong impression when he says they were "insight") to this and the neighbor missions three docile native tribes, unused to agriculture, the Pacao, Pajalat, and Pitalac, which together were. CHURCH OF SAN FRANCISCO DE LA ESPADA said to numberabout 1,000 persons. This mission was founded with the Pacao tribe, its chief being made "governor" of the pueblo, called Pueblo de Acuna ( monio de Asiento de Misiones, Gen. Land Office, Texas, Span. Archives, xl, folios 13, 21-22). Since most of the records for this mission havedisappeared, our knowl- edge of its tribal history is fragmentary. In June 1737 there were 137 neophytes, mainly Pacaos and Arcahomos (appar- ently those better known as Tacames), 80 of them having been baptized. These two tribes seem to have been for some time the chief ones there. On June 7 of that year all deserted, the mission- aries charging the flight to fear of the Apache, while Indians and soldiers said the cause was bad treatment. By Nov. 22 only 7 had returned, in spite of the fact that three efforts had been made to reclaim them. In January a fourth em- bassy sent for them brought back 108 more (Lamar Papers, Span. ]\IS. no. 33; Expediente sobre
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