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Title: History of the Catholic church in California
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Gleeson, W. (William), 1822-1903
Subjects: Catholic Church Jesuits Franciscans Missions
Publisher: San Francisco, Printed for the author by A. L. Bancroft, and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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on this coast of the Pacific contrive tomake a good subsistence on various seeds, and byfishing. The latter they carry on by means ofrafts or canoes, made of tule (bullrush) with whichthey go a great way to sea. They are very civil.All the males, old and young, go naked; the wo-men, however, and the female children, are de-cently covered from their breasts downward. Wefound on our journey, as well as in the placewhere we stopped, that they treated us with asmuch confidence and good-will as if they hadknown us all their lives. But when we offeredthem any of our victuals, they always refusedthem. All they cared for was cloth, and only forsomething of this sort would they exchange theirfish or whatever else they had. During the wholemarch we found hares, rabbits, some deer, and amultitude of berendos (a kind of wild goat). I pray God may preserve your health and lifemany years. From this port and intended mission of SanDiego, in North California, third July, 1769. Francis Junipero Serra.
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CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CALIFORNIA. 25 Before entering into details respecting the laborsof the Fathers, it is proper to make the reader ac-quainted with the general plan on which the re-duction of the country w^as contemplated. To thisend, it is necessary to understand the meaningattached to the terms presidio^ Castillo^ pueblo^^md mission, by which agencies the country wassought to be brought to a knowledge of religion,and into subjection to the crown. The presidios^as may be readily inferred from the name, werethe military garrisons established along the coastfor the defence of the country and the protectionof the missionaries. Being the head-quarters ofthe military, they became the seats of the localgovernments of the different presidencies intowhich the country w^as divided. They were fourin number—San Diego, Santa Barbara, Montereya,nd San Francisco. Unique in their generalplan, they consisted of adobe ^ walls, twelve orfourteen feet high, enclosing a square of threehundred feet on

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