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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...apoplexy, chills, fever, small-pox nor venereal diseases were known among these creatures before the white man came to live among them. A California Indian never grew sick. He just died..We have lifted a corner of the veil that hid their physical degradation. We dare not do as much and show their moral wretchedness. There was no law, no order among them. To quote our outspoken missioner again: "In government they resemble nothing less than a herd of swine which runs about grunting, together to-day, scattered to-morrow. They live as if they were free-thinkers and, salva venia, materialists." Family there was none. When the young Californian had learned to catch mice and kill snakes, his education was complete; it mattered little to him then whether he had parents or no. He could count to three, at most to six, though some say to twenty, certainly not beyond, for then fingers and toes failed. Why count at all? Whether they had five fingers or fifty mattered little, the succession of days mattered less; every day was eating time, idling time; every night was sleeping time, dancing time. They had no concept of a Supreme Being, no idols, no temples, no ceremonies, no suspicion of the immortality of the soul. Some tell of a belief among them strangely resembling the Incarnation; of a creator of land and sea, one of whose three sons had lived on earth and had been killed by the Indians. So write Fathers Venegas and Clavijero, who never saw California, while Father Baegert, a missioner of seventeen years residence there, states that he could find no notion of a Supreme Being among them. Such were the creatures whom the Black Robe undertook to Christianize in 1697. He won his way to their hearts by soothing their stomachs. Any of them would listen to an in... Paperback, Label: RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Product group: Book, Published: 2012-05-21, Studio: RareBooksClub.com.

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