. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 . les, all the trans-portation being carried on by means of met many people to-day passing from one villageor rancho to another; and not a little curiosity wasmanifested at seeing such a group of white faces withlong beards wending our way among them. Riding up to the church, which appeared quitenew, we dismounted and hitched our animals, to take TO LA MAGDALENA. 419
. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 . les, all the trans-portation being carried on by means of met many people to-day passing from one villageor rancho to another; and not a little curiosity wasmanifested at seeing such a group of white faces withlong beards wending our way among them. Riding up to the church, which appeared quitenew, we dismounted and hitched our animals, to take TO LA MAGDALENA. 419 a brief inspection of it. Like the other buildings ofthe country, it was constructed of adobe, but hadneither steeple nor tower. Three bells were sus-pended from a frame in front, on one of which, Inoticed the date 1680. There was nothing of interesthere; so we journeyed on to Terrenati, a village ofthree or four hundred souls, two miles distant. Con-tinuing our ride six or eight miles further still, andfollowing the same stream that we first met at Coco-pera, we reached San Ignacio. We rode into the plazafacing the church, and, dismounting, applied at an ad-joining house for admission into the sacred Door-way of the Church, San Ignacio. We were received with much politeness, and con-ducted by a young woman through an entrance nearthe altar into the church, which did not meet my ex-pectations, as it was by no means in keeping with theexterior of the building. There were but few pictures 420 SANTA CRUZ on the walls; and the statues, which are of wood,and from two to four feet high, were quite the latter, 1 noticed two Chinese figures,intended doubtless for mandarins, but here metamor-phosed into saints. These images reminded me atonce of our proximity to the Pacific, with its oppositeshore formed by the Celestial Empire, between whichand Mexico, there was formerly a flourishing com-merce. I asked the attendant if those figures werenot from China; to whic
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