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Show BY PATH AND TKAIL. 63 taxes. Banderas, the Yaqui chief, led the uprising and won material concessions from our government. Ban deras headed another rebellion in 1832, in which he was defeated and slain. The next uprising was in 1884- 7, caused by encroachments on the lands of the tribe, and the present war is due to the lawless acts of the gold hunters and their contempt for the laws of the Yaqui tribe. They have the misfortune to live on the fringe of civilization, where provocation is always menacing. ' ' " If I am not trespassing too generously on your cour tesy, may I ask why the Franciscan fathers abandoned the missions in Sonora?" " They did not abandon the missions/' replied the priest, " they were exiled I do not like to use the word expelled from all Mexican territory after the declara tion and separation of the republic from Spain. You see, party spirit, or rather, racial divergence, was very acute and rancorous in those times. When the Mexi cans achieved their independence, all Spaniards, includ ing priests, officials and professional men, were ordered to leave the country. There were hardly enough native priests to administer the canonically established par ishes, and for twenty- five years the Indians of Sonora were without the consoling influence of the Christian religion or the pacifying presence of the only men who could restrain the expression of their warlike instincts. " " So you are of the opinion that if the missionaries had remained with them, the Yaquis would now be at peace with Mexico?" " I am' sure of it. In 1696, when the Jesuit superior of the ' Alta Pimeria' missions decided to send Father Eusebio Kino from Sonora to open the mission to the 4 Digger Indians' of Lower California, the military gov- |