A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . Francisco de la EspadaIII Eraiicisco de los Tejas.) SPANISH DISCOVERY AND DOMINATION IN TEXAS. 6S found matters not in a very flourishing condition. There had pkriod i. SpanishDomination been sickness, and the inmates had suffered from freshets and. snow-storms. He and the priests founded a new mission near ^ there, called Jesus Maria y Jose, or usually simply Santa Maria. to In September he met the sea expedition at Espiritu Santo, iSsr where it had been waiting since July, whence he sailed forVera Cruz. He left behind a forc
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . Francisco de la EspadaIII Eraiicisco de los Tejas.) SPANISH DISCOVERY AND DOMINATION IN TEXAS. 6S found matters not in a very flourishing condition. There had pkriod i. SpanishDomination been sickness, and the inmates had suffered from freshets and. snow-storms. He and the priests founded a new mission near ^ there, called Jesus Maria y Jose, or usually simply Santa Maria. to In September he met the sea expedition at Espiritu Santo, iSsr where it had been waiting since July, whence he sailed forVera Cruz. He left behind a force of soldiers and fifteen mis-sionaries to sustain the missions in EasternTexas, but matters went wrong there for sev-eral years. The crops failed, sickness pre-vailed, the Indians were superstitious andclaimed that the baptismal water made themdie, and the missionaries became greatly dis-couraged. Finally, in October, 1693, being refused proper aid from home and losing heart . b,,^^^^^^. ^^ espadain this wilderness of savages, the friars buriedtheir mission-bells, and other property not transportable, andturned their faces towards Coahuila. For the next twenty-two interval of in-years nothing was done in Texas, except that the older missions ^^ ^ ^on the Rio Grande were still maintained. Both Spain andFranc
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