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Show 500 PERORATION. and never- so- well praised Puerto de San Francisco, where there is rendered already worship to the great God, and this is pushed with sacred intrepidity still further up the coast. I see the grand providences which have given and still give themselves to the end that we may be able to penetrate further inland ( internar mas). I believe firmly that God must help us and that he must domesticate the nations most ferocious, if we oblige him, aggregating to his church so many thousands of souls as I - say in the Diary are available for that purpose ( dispuestas para hazerlo), and who are awaiting us with open arms. When I have heard tell that the king our lord, in his royal cedulas of the new reglamento, expresses himself in these or some such words: " As one of the things that most occupy my royal attention is the conversion of the gentiles, I command to my viceroy that he give me notice if there be any nation or nations who wish to flock ( agregar) to our religion "- I say, that when I have heard these expressions I have persuaded myself that his majesty must have ( ha de tener) an especial complacency at the sight of so many as I enumerate in this Diary, who, having been questioned and examined in this particular, have manifested desires to receive the catechism, and to submit themselves to his royal dominion; as also do I persuade myself that the desires which his majesty manifests will be carried into |