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SCENES IN THE PACIFIC. 
and at this place the Indians throng the path of this good man,, 
kneeling like children to a loved grandsire for a blessing. 
In March they advance as far as the village of the Quin- 
quimas, and name it San Rudesindo. These Indians show 
much love towards the Padres, and even towards the beasts 
that bear them. The good Padre Gonzales is affected to tears 
by these demonstrations; and strips off a part of his own 
wardrobe to clothe an aged man who follows him. They 
now travel down the Colorado to its entrance into the Gulf. 
Here many Indians come from the western shore and entreat 
the Padres to pass over into their country. They learn from 
them that the Pacific is ten days’ journey from this place. The 
night of the tenth is spent at the point where the river and the 
Gulf meet. The tide rises very high and swashes near their 
couches; horned night-owls hoot on the crags; Padre Gon¬ 
zales groans with extreme illness! These Padres have de¬ 
signed to cross the river at this place, and travel over the 
mountains to the Pacific Ocean. But Padre Kino sees the 
necessity of returning with his sick brother. He succeeds in 
getting him to the mission of Tibutama, where he dies. 
Death in the wilderness, to one who goes into its depths to 
sow the seeds of salvation, is sweet. The desires of the mind 
touch the earth lightly. Their objects are things of thought 
and trust. The hand of hope is laid on the skies ! The eye 
follows it to the temple of immortal faith; is absorbed and 
fixed there, to the exclusion of everything material. The 
pains incident to the separation of the living principle from 
the body, are like brambles which one passes to fields of 
flowers and fruits, singing birds, pebbly streams, and odorous 
shades. And the grave itself becomes in truth the pass-way 
only to the full enjoyment of the proper objects of the moral 
sense, without limit or satiety. So this missionary dies, and 
is buried among the graves of Indian Christians at Tibutama. 
The years 1703, 1704, and 1705, Padre Kino spends in 
building up the missions of Pimeria, and in resisting the per¬ 
secution raised against him because he will not permit the 
