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Identifier: ourcountryinstor00fran (find matches)
Title: Our country in story
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Franciscan Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration (La Crosse, Wis.)
Subjects: United States -- History America -- Discovery and exploration
Publisher: Chicago, New York, Scott, Foresman and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f the buildingswere, as a rule, constructed of adobe bricks and stone,though in some of the missions they were also built ofwood, especially in the beginning. The adobe bricks weremade of mud mixed with chopped straw and were bakedin the sun. They were about twelve to eighteen incheslong, ten to twelve inches wide, and four inches thick. Only at San Diego, San Carlos, San Francisco deAssisi, and Santa Barbara were presidios connected withthe missions. At each of the other missions, a guard ofthree or five soldiers served as a sort of police force.Thus each mission formed a settlement of neophytesunder the guidance of the Padres. After some years,thirty thousand Indians were lodged at one time in theCalifornia missions. Were the neophytes ever allowed to return to their 124 OUR COUNTRY IN STORY pagan friends in the wilderness or to live anywhere elsethan at the mission ? asked James. ;They were frequently given a vacation of two weeksduring which time they might go anywhere they chose.
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A PADRE MAKING HIS WAY THROUGH THE WILDERNESS But outside of this vacation, they were obliged to remainat the mission. Runaways were followed and broughtback by the soldiers. If the neophytes had been permittedto live among their pagan tribesmen, they would undoubt-edly have returned to their wild life and might even havebecome dangerous to the missions. THE GREAT SOUTHWEST 125 But how did the Padres manage to keep under suchsplendid control these throngs of untamed savages ? They always first won the confidence of these nat-urally distrustful children of the wilderness. Only grad-ually did they train them to habits of cleanliness anddiligence. They taught them to make clothing and to wearit, to build homes and to live in them. Along with this,and most important of all, they taught them that thereexisted a great, loving God; that their souls were im-mortal ; that they would be punished for their bad deedsand rewarded for the good they did. Can you tell me how they passed the time in t

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