. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . of going with the missionaries, the In-dians ever displayed more stubbornness. Thetime came wlien they not only flatly refused butattempted to retrieve from the missionaries thosewho had allowed themselves to be persuaded. InMarch, 1761, the Terbis of the North took thefield, and, having crossed the Cordillera, directedtheir march toward the settlements the mission-aries had founded on the Pacific side. On theeve of Palm Simday three hundred warriorsarrived before Cabagra in a body and sackedthe church, convent and all the dwelling houses
. History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica . of going with the missionaries, the In-dians ever displayed more stubbornness. Thetime came wlien they not only flatly refused butattempted to retrieve from the missionaries thosewho had allowed themselves to be persuaded. InMarch, 1761, the Terbis of the North took thefield, and, having crossed the Cordillera, directedtheir march toward the settlements the mission-aries had founded on the Pacific side. On theeve of Palm Simday three hundred warriorsarrived before Cabagra in a body and sackedthe church, convent and all the dwelling next day, burning houses as they passed,killing the men and seizing the women, theymarched upon San Francisco de Torraba, arriv-ing at the moment when the greater part of theinhabitants were assembled in the church to hearmass, and attacked the village on three Padres Márquez and Tomás López, whowere in the church with their flock, caused thedoors to be locked and succeeded in making theirway into the convent, which had already been. CONQUEST OF COSTA RICA 395 fired. Once inside, they made with their gunsso effective a stand against the attacking partythat they forced the Indians to retire to a safedistance, then went out into the patio of the con-vent, which was strewn with the arrows andspears the Terbis had launched, and, collectingthese weapons, distributed them among theChi^stian Indians who had remained in thechurch, resolutely placed themselves at theirhead, sallied forth to attack the invaders, and putthem to flight, killing a number of men and twoof their principal leaders. The town of Cabagra, inhabited by some twohundred and fifty souls, was entirely destroyedand the Indians residing there fled to Talamancawith the Terbis. Térraba, with three hundredinhabitants, alone survived. Because of this at-tack, the missionaries, to avoid further hostihties,asked leave to remove the village to a more se-cure site, and, to this end, requested an escortof sold
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