. The missions and missionaries of California. blishments were al-most depopulated by the epidemics which visited the turbu-lent Pericues during the years of 1742, 1744, and one-sixth of the natives escaped. It is not possibleto describe the hardships of the missionaries at this period;they were occupied all day long and a great part of the nightin administering to the corporal and spiritual needs of thesuffering and dying. The Uchities suffered even more thanthe Pericues. They took up arms against the Christian In- 23 It was situated ten leagues east of Guadalupe. (A. N., inSuns
. The missions and missionaries of California. blishments were al-most depopulated by the epidemics which visited the turbu-lent Pericues during the years of 1742, 1744, and one-sixth of the natives escaped. It is not possibleto describe the hardships of the missionaries at this period;they were occupied all day long and a great part of the nightin administering to the corporal and spiritual needs of thesuffering and dying. The Uchities suffered even more thanthe Pericues. They took up arms against the Christian In- 23 It was situated ten leagues east of Guadalupe. (A. N., inSunset Magazine, December, 1906, p. 148.) 24 Lat. 23 deg., 40 min.; long. 110 deg., 5 min. (A. N.) 25 Mission del Pilar was situated southwest of the present LaPaz, in lat. 24 deg., 10 min.; long. 110 deg. 20 min. (A. N.) 26 It was southwest of La Paz near the Pacific Ocean, in lat. 23deg., 24 min.; long. 110 deg., 13 min. (A. N.) 27 Lat. 23 deg., 3 min.; long. 109 deg., 40 min. (A. N.) 28 Venegas, Noticia, torn, ii, pte. iii, sec. xxii, Royal Orders; Missions in 1745 241 dians, so that the lieutenant of the San Jose presidio foundhimself compelled to wage war upon the obstinate many of them were killed, and many others died in thesubsequent epidemics. The population began to dwindle awayso steadily, that in 1767 only one individual of this tribe sur-vived. All agreed that these disasters had come upon thepeople in punishment for their crimes. 29 In view of the fact that the Indians in the south had soconsiderably decreased, it became necessary to reduce thenumber of the missions. San Jose del Cabo was accordinglyabandoned; its few Pericu survivors and those of Santa Rosawere transferred to Mission Santiago. Mission NuestraSenora del Pilar de la Paz, where fresh water had becomescarce, was closed; the missionary with the Guaycuro neo-phytes removed to Santa Rosa; but as the principal Indian set-tlement of this missionary district was Todos Santos, the newly-or
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