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Show WHAT GOD DID WITH THE APACHE. 499 ageability of so many vicinities, I persuade myself that God permitted to infuriate itself more and more every day the Apache nation, until not only was pursuit impeded and rendered impracticable, but also were devastated our lands, we becoming obliged to spend immense sums in war defensive, and therein to sacrifice many lives. If that which has been expended in contending against the Apache from the beginning of his hostilities, or better say since God took him for an instrument to punish our sins, had been employed in new establishments, where would not now be raised the standard of the holy cross? In how many provinces as yet unknown would not now be obeyed the name of the catholic monarch? Thank God that it seems that in our times revives that antique Spanish spirit of discovering and possessing new lands, sacrificing in this enterprise lives and moneys for the acquisition of the precious pearls that are souls. 48 Within a short time ( en brebes dias) have we seen discovered anew the coasts of the Mar del Sur to the far- famed - This sentence is translatable almost word for word from the original: " Alabo a Dios por que pareze que en nuestros tiem-pos resucita aquel antiguo espiritu Espanol de descubrir y poseer nuebas tierras sacrificando a este empresa vidas y cau-dales por el logro de las preciosas Margaritas que son las Almas." Our good friend and fervid missionary is waxing eloquent as he approaches the professional peroration of these reflections on his Diary. |