. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. theircrimes. ... To conceal their purposes, they petitioned that a town for themshould be established on the opposite coast, where they might assemble on leavingthe island. Their request was embarassing because on examination of tlie coastthere was found only a single scanty spring in a carrizal in a playa-like country[toda la tierra como de playa], with little fuel and no timber. Not unnaturally Fray Oris()Stomo hesitated to locate a mission on thepractically uninhabitable site, in which, more
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. theircrimes. ... To conceal their purposes, they petitioned that a town for themshould be established on the opposite coast, where they might assemble on leavingthe island. Their request was embarassing because on examination of tlie coastthere was found only a single scanty spring in a carrizal in a playa-like country[toda la tierra como de playa], with little fuel and no timber. Not unnaturally Fray Oris()Stomo hesitated to locate a mission on thepractically uninhabitable site, in which, moreover, the mission wouldbe of no utility because the Indians did not really wish to leave theirisland and submit to religions , nor could the coast supply thenecessary food, as it was a barren sand-waste, so that it would become Crinica Serdfica y ApostdUoa del Colegio de Propaganda Fide de la Santa Cruz de Quer^taro enla Nuera Espafia. . escrita por el Padre Fray Juan Domiugo Arricivita, 2 itarte, Mexico,1793, p. 426. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. VI. RECENTLY OCCUPIED RANCHERIA, TIBURON ISLAND
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