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march into the interior to find inhabitants. As they break 
their way, the brambles and briars lacerate their naked bodies. 
Two days of agony from this cause and from hunger and 
thirst, bring them into an open plain, where they are found by 
Indians. These they induce to give information of their pre¬ 
sence and sufferings, to the commander of the town Tamasula, 
who visits them with horses, water and maize cakes, for their 
relief. 
From this town they go to Guazave, the nearest mission in 
Cinaloa, where they fortunately find Padre Francisco Maza- 
regos. This Jesuit Missionary entertains them in the most 
liberal manner. The briars of the rugged path over which 
they travelled, have torn their clothing from their backs; 
and this holy man calls upon his Indian converts to contribute 
of their means, while he himself bestows his own wardrobe, 
to clothe the naked sufferers. 
Having been refreshed by rest and food, and once more 
clad, they leave the hospitable Padre of Guazave for the town 
of Cinaloa. Here also they are generously entertained by 
Padre Juan Yrazoqui, until each departs to his appointed sta¬ 
tion. Padre Guillen is roused instead of discouraged, by 
these hardships. Like all those great spirits wdio are sowing 
the gospel on the deserts of California, his sinews become the 
stronger as they are worn by hardship. He travels over the 
deserts to the missions at Yaqui, and in the month of January, 
1714, sails to California in the good old San Xavier. 
The missions are again entirely dependent upon this bark 
for the transport of supplies; the loss in New Rosario* of 
the commodities and clothing, on which the Padres, seamen, 
and soldiers depend to sustain life, no money left, no clothing, 
no food, the only sea-craft in their possession unseaworthy, 
and no means of repairing her, on a desert land and among 
hostile Indians kept in subjection chiefly by the supply of 
their physical wants, now impossible to be done, are the dis¬ 
couraging circumstances which weigh on the heavy hearts of 
the Padres. But who shall set bounds to the power of moral 
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