The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

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and he shortly received the authority necessary to enable him
to return, and civilize and Christianize these civilized
pagans of the sixteenth century. Unavoidable delays occurred, however, and it was not until seven years later, in
1665, that he finally succeeded in making the necessary and
final arrangements to return, and spread the Gospel among,
the simple-minded natives of Cibola.
Late in the year 1670, he, in company with three other
Jesuits, set out upon their mission through the wilderness.
Of their long journey, the hardships which they endured,
the trials and dangers which they passed through, or the
difficulties which they encountered, we have no record; we
only know that in the year 1672, they reached the Gila,
and there commenced the establishment of a mission among
the Yaquis. From this time until 1679, they established no
less than five missions among the Yaquis, the Opotos, and
the Papagoes, locating them in beautiful valleys, yielding
rich treasures of precious stones, while the now-clad peaks
of the surrounding mountains furnished gld. silver, and
copper in the greatest abundance.
The natives, simple and industrious as the\ vore, were
easily persuaded to labor upon the edifices there erected,
alid thus aided in forging the chains that afterwardAs.elped
so effectually to render them powerless to defend thes,selves
from the attacks of foes beyond their boundaries, but tipon
whose territory the cupidity of the priests had led their'to
encroach.
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