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SCENES IN THE PACIFIC. 
converts, until this entire people are brought under the influ¬ 
ence of the Padres. To this end, during the time that Padre 
Ugarte has been exploring the Gulf and coast, two new mis¬ 
sions have been founded among Pericues. 
The Marques de Villa Puente, having a deep interest in the 
spread of the gospel in California, has endowed two missions 
which shall be founded between Cape San Lucas and Loretto. 
On receiving tidings of this, it is resolved that Padre Guil¬ 
len shall leave the mission San Lucas de Malibat, and found 
a new mission between the Uchities and Guaycuros. Accord¬ 
ingly in 1721, he settles among them and lays the foundation 
of a church and other buildings necessary to a mission, on the 
shore of Aparte, forty leagues by sea, and on account of im¬ 
passable mountains, sixty by land, from Loretto. The mission 
is dedicated to Nuestra Sennora de los Dolores, and is styled 
Los Dolores del Sur. The country around it is barren and 
desolate. The inhabitants are the most vindictive, treacher¬ 
ous and stupid of all the Californians. Padre Guillen has 
therefore no easy or pleasant task to execute. But he enters 
upon it with so much zeal and love, is so unsparing of his 
efforts, and so universally kind and gentle toward those whom 
he would win to his flock, that his labors are rewarded even 
more largely than his fondest hopes anticipate. 
It is found advisable after the good Padre has been laboring 
here for some time, to remove his mission farther into the in¬ 
terior, to a place called Tanuetia, about ten leagues from the 
Gulf and twenty-five from the Pacific. In this region the In¬ 
dians live in the wildest state. They have no villages; and 
the Padre is obliged to seek them in caves and woods, and 
among the almost inaccessible rocks of the mountains. With 
great labor and the most indefatigable perseverance he 
draws them from their retreats and forms them into six villa¬ 
ges, called Nuestra Sennora de los Dolores, La Concepcion 
de Nuestra Sennora, La Incarnacion, La Trinidad, La Redemp- 
cion, and La Resurreccion. He also assembles many other 
wandering Indians, and erects for them the new mission of 
