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Show 370 RECENT OPERATIONS AGAINST APACHES. the Espanoles are valiant, and that a long- beard hath come unto them, saying that no longer is there to be any war. All of which is the padre writing to the Villa." I infer from this that fear alone will have restrained the Apaches; since I have spoken no otherwise in what I have had to say of this matter in regard to the Yumas, refer to that, and also to the reflections in this Diary. 11 I did not enter into this question with the Indian, nor did I write thereupon to the padre, for lack of paper, a stock of which would be required to tell him all that goes on in Sonora with the Apaches. Bucarely. One of them, dated Mexico, Dec. 25, 1776 ( Doc. No. 696, A. F. B.) advises Mendinueta of the arrival there of El Senor Brigadier Cavallero de Croix, comandante general nombrado por el Rey de esa Provincia, de las de Senora ( sic), Cinaloa, Californias, Nueva Viscaya, Coahuila y Texas- whose usual autograph was " El Cavro De Croix." Colonel or Brigadier Mendinueta has been represented by some writers as ruling in 1759 and 1762; but he succeeded Cachupin in 1767 as governor and captain- general of New Mexico, and was the last to hold the latter title. He retired in 1778, leaving instructions of date March 14 to his successor, Acting Governor Francisco Trebol Navarro, who was in turn succeeded by Lt. Col. Juan Bautista de Anza, appointed in June, 1777, and taking office probably in 1778, certainly by Jan., 1779. But what particular stroke of Governor Mendinueta against hostile Indians, or what ones of his numerous reports to Bucareli, the scholiast means, I have not ascertained. II For the Yuma reference see p. 204; the " reflexions " are those given beyond, after the Diary proper is concluded. |