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die the father had to be at home ; if at the time of the childbirth he is 

 away from home, though he knows about it and does observe the diet, 

 there is no danger. 



And in confirmation of the above I shall relate a case which haj^pcncd 

 in the year 1819 at the Mission of N. [marginal annotation: San 

 Diego]. The wife of an Indian who was cook for the priests at the 

 said mission, gave birth before the proper time to a baby, very weak 

 and sickly. The husband after it was born began his diet, and on the 

 second day, the priest seeing that the Indian ate nothing more than a 

 little bread asked him the reason why he did not eat meat and other 

 things as usual. The Indian answered him that he was not eating meat 

 because he did not want to kill his child. The priest began to exhort 

 him telling him that he should abandon these gentile ideas that his 

 child would not die though he [the father] ate meat. The Indian was 

 reluctant, but seeing the persistence of the priest (and he was doing 

 it in order to disimpress him of those ideas), he ate like the rest, and 

 in the evening the child died. Of course it is to be reflected that the 

 death of the child did not come from the eating of meat, but from 

 the child's sickness and weakness and premature birth, but all the 

 Indians and he himself attributed it to the eating of meat. 



Entre las barbaridades, que pueden contarse de estos Indios, (aunque 

 el P. Torquemada [marginal annotation : lib. 13. c. 9.] ya habla de unos 

 semejantes, y quizas seran de unamisma rasa) una es y no poco pesima, 

 sino de las mas abominables, el casarse hombres con hombres, estos son 

 unos hombres, que aunque sean varones desde chiquitos les ensenan 

 todos los oficios y trabajos de mugeres, y su modo de vestir es el de las 

 mugeres, hasta en sus brutalidades usan de ellos como de mugeres : 

 Estos tales Servian, tanto en su Rancheria como en otras que fueran, 

 como publicas rameras, y este mal trato sodomitico, les era permitido, 

 entregandose a aquel que queria usar de ellos. De estos havia algunos 

 Capitanes, u otros que se casavan con ellos, y estos los tenian que a 

 mas de usar de ellos en sus brutalidades, para hacerles sus comidas, y 

 servicio de la casa, que como hombres siempre tenian mas f uerza. 



Estas especies de hombres todos tenian un mismo nombre que era 

 generico : en las Rancherias de este contorno los llamavan CuiU, y un 

 poco mas tierra adentro Uluqui, y por la canal Coyas. Estos de esta 

 Provincia, no eran como los que refiere Torquemada, pues dice : que 

 aquellos eran unos hombres mariones impotentes, corpulentos, y 

 membrudos. Los que Yo he visto, son hombres usuales como los demas, 

 y no padecen tal impotencia, pues conosi a uno casado con muger de 

 Christiano y tenia dos hijos. Lo mas particular que havia entre estos 



