File:Bulletin (1942) (14597013889).jpg

Identifier: bulletin1321942smit (find matches)
Title: Bulletin
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ht caused two successive crop failures, and a disease spread among thestock causing many cattle to die. A good number of the natives also fell victimsto the disease and the Indians, attributing their misfortune to the baptismalwater which the missionaries used, became actually hostile. To cap the entiresituation the soldiers were offensive in their relations with the natives. Themissionaries attempted to meet this last problem by their efforts to lead thesoldiers to live in a more Christian manner, for their bad example was notonly an obstacle to, but was actually undoing, the work which the missionarieshad accomplished. The soldiers did not respond, discord increased and this,added to the other difficulties, made life very disagreeable and discouraging atthe missions. (Heusinger, 1936, pp. 51-52.) Diego Ramon suggested that a party of 20 men from Monclovacould take the missionaries the desired supplies, since the road waswell known. This plan was adopted, and on May 3 the men set out
Text Appearing After Image:
U) 1) 2 B. ir S . H ^ < ^ 0 £ U U z -5 < c CE U UJ ^ l~ Sf ui £ I (b 1- ^ -c . 0 -^ Z -5 5 -E (/) =/: d! Q £ Z H < ^ c -- c <yi ^ 10 ^ -Tl! t = 0 -T3 0 ^ ^ 0 «J p °^ . .4- .■^ o-^ Z ^ iJ , UI P J3 ^ -^ ? « 0 &- Q § LiJ ^ w ■- < -^ m c rt (/) oP 1 B i r^ UJ 2 ) J .5 in \ 0 rt Q ^ < o A I .^ 0 -5 Q h 4 < < m i B ^ ^ F r ^ r i_^ I .= T 1- .^■ J 0 c < 0 2 H swANTON) CADDO HISTORY AND ETHNOLOGY 49 under Captain Gregorio Salinas taking ninety-seven pack loadsof provisions and gifts for the Indians, and one hundred and eightyhorses for the use of the twenty soldiers who made the trip. Theyarrived at the mission of San Francisco de los Texas on June 8 justin time to prevent the abandonment of the country which the mis-sionaries had decided to effect in July. Salinas found that the mis-sion of Santisimo Nombre de Maria had been destroyed by a floodshortly after

Note About Images