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Show 64 BY PATH AND TRAIL. ernor refused to let Father Kino go, saying that the priest had more power in restraining the Indians of the Sonora and Yaqui lands than a regiment of soldiers." My interview with this scholarly and devout priest was abruptly brought to a close by the arrival of some visitors. With the kindness and affability which dis tinguish all the Mexican ecclesiastics that I have been privileged to meet, he insisted upon accompanying me to the garden gate, where with uncovered head I shook his friendly hand, and after thanking him for his gra cious hospitality, bade him good- bye. On the way to my posada, or lodging house, I thought of the honors heaped upon the Komans by Macauley, and the admiration of the world for men like Horatius, who in defense of their country, rush to death, asking: " How can men die nobler, Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of their fathers And the temples of their Gods?" |
