. To California and back;. sacred or driven from the land and every vestige oftheir occupation was extirpated. After the resubjec-tion of the natives by Diego de Vargas the presentchurch was constructed, and the Pueblos have notsince rebelled against the contiguity of the whiteman. PENITENTES. All the numerous Mexican communities in the Ter-ritory contain representatives of this order, which ispeculiar by reason of the self-flagellations inflictedby its members in their excess of pietistic zeal. Un-like their ilk of India, they do not practice self tort-ure for long periods, but only upon a ce
. To California and back;. sacred or driven from the land and every vestige oftheir occupation was extirpated. After the resubjec-tion of the natives by Diego de Vargas the presentchurch was constructed, and the Pueblos have notsince rebelled against the contiguity of the whiteman. PENITENTES. All the numerous Mexican communities in the Ter-ritory contain representatives of this order, which ispeculiar by reason of the self-flagellations inflictedby its members in their excess of pietistic zeal. Un-like their ilk of India, they do not practice self tort-ure for long periods, but only upon a certain day ineach year. Then, stripped to the waist, these poorzealots go chanting a dolorous strain and beatingthemselves unsparingly upon the back with the sharp-spined cactus, or soap-weed, until they are a revolt-ing sight to look upon. Often they sink from theexhaustionof long-sustained suffering and loss ofblood. Among the Penitential ceremonies is thebearing a huge cross of heavy timber for long dis-tances, amid the
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