Spain in the West, Volume 2A. H. Clark Company, 1914 - America |
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Common terms and phrases
Adaes Angelinas River Antonio de Bejar Apaches arrived ATANASIO DE MESIERES Bancroft Coll BARON DE RIPPERDA BERNARDO DE GALVEZ Bexar Brazos Brazos River Bucareli captain chief Comanches Cuba dear Sir Demecieres Document Don Atanasio enemies Espiritu Santo Estados Unidos excellent Señor excellent Sir expedition friendly give governor of Texas Historia honor horses hundred Indians journey kiss the hand leagues letter Lipanes live Lordship is kissed Los Adaes Luisiana Majesty March Marcos Vidal Mexico Mézières MEZIERES rubric MEZIERES TO BERNARDO MEZIERES TO CROIX mission Nacogdoches Natchitoches nations Naytane North Orleans Osages Panis peace preserve your Lordship presidio presidio of San Proc Prov province of Texas pueblo Quitseys River royal San Antonio San Teodoro SEÑOR COMMANDANT-GENERAL Señor Governor-general sent September Sieur Layssard Sosier Spaniards Tancagues Taovayas Teodoro tion trade tribes Trinity River troops Tuacanas UNZAGA Y AMEZAGA VICEROY village Xaranames
Popular passages
Page 269 - ... Indies did me the honor to address to me in the name of the king, and which your Lordship had sent to me, an honor so signal that I avow both the confusion which it causes me, in view of the mediocrity of my services and of my lack of words in which to attest my 886 The reference is to Document 195. heartfelt gratitude. May it please Heaven to furnish me opportunity to prove it to the measure of the zeal which animates me, and to render myself in some way a worthy subaltern of such a chief as...
Page 203 - The women tan, sew, and paint the skins, fence in the fields, care for the cornfields, harvest the crops, cut and fetch the fire-wood, prepare the food, build the houses, and rear the children, their constant care stopping at nothing that contributes to the comfort and pleasure of their husbands.
Page 291 - Chavanons, and others; on the east by West Florida, Georgia, and Carolina ; and on the west by New Mexico and New Spain.
Page 270 - I had already arranged with three of the chief men of his own nation, whom I knew to be his rivals, that they should conduct him to Natchitoches, under the promise that he would share in the presents which I intended for them, and make an end to him on the road, being sure that there would not be lacking something to which to attribute his death, without causing suspicion of anything unnatural. This plan would have been carried out had it not been for the epidemic, which, taking away my agents, left...
Page 44 - Indians of the missions, as is seen by their classification: -eighty of the regular company of the said presidio; fifty of the presidio of La Bahia; thirty who were discharged from the presidio of El Orocoquisac and who remained armed and mounted ; one hundred fifty citizens of the presidio and villa of San Antonio de Bejar ; one hundred forty citizens of the presidio of Los Adaes ; and fifty Indians of the five missions. From this your Lordship will comprehend the cause of the excesses that have...
Page 252 - ... down to this day, of Notary Pillard of this place. All the papers are in good order and chests are all ready to remove them in case of fire. You will find herewith the list of the Sr. Badeaux, which (papers) are at his home all in good order, of which His Excellency may rest assured.
Page 34 - The French continue to trade in guns, powder, and balls, which they exchange for . . . beasts of burden. They do not raise horses and mules, hence, in order to supply the need, it is necessary to obtain them from the Indians in trade. To supply these it is the custom for the Indians to come and rob our lands, as in fact they are now doing. Indeed they have...
Page 248 - ... never fails. It is to him principally that we owe in this district a constant barrier against the incursions of the Osages; moreover, it is to the love and respect which the villages of the surrounding district show him that we owe the fact that they generally entertain the same sentiments for us. 299 Pap. Proc. de Cuba, leg. 192, no. 154. I have the honor to be very respectfully, Sir, your very humble and very obedient servant, ATHAN10 DE MEZIERES [rubric].
Page 82 - In order to bring together the Gaignard journal and the two letters relating to it, a slight departure from the chronological order has been made here. Gaignard gives some account of himself near the end of this letter. Other data relative to the circumstances of sending him on this mission are given in Document 137. See also pages 99-100. 70 Pap. Proc. de Cuba, leg. 189-1, no. 127. 71 Baltazar de Villiers, lieutenant-governor of Natchitoches during the absence of De Mezieres in Europe. 72 The term...