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SCENES IN THE PACIFIC. 
the history of California, and left in their characters and lives, 
an example to all who would rear the cross in the solitary wil¬ 
derness. Bold, indefatigable, self-denying, just, and true men, 
they were, who never shrank from any duty, however severe, 
and were never swerved by passion or love of ease, from the 
line of action marked out by judgment, truth and religious 
faith. 
Padre Piccolo expires in the garrison at Loretto, on the 
twenty-second of February, 1729, having lived seventy-nine 
years, thirty-two of which he has spent among the missions 
of California. Padre Ugarte follows him the next year, hav¬ 
ing been thirty years a laborer on the same ground. The deaths 
of these excellent men are momentous events in the missions. 
Their great experience, their uniform kindness, their zeal, tem¬ 
pered by wisdom and sagacity, their unblemished integrity, 
and the veneration in which their very names are held by the 
Indians, make them powerful co-operators with the young and 
active missionaries, even though age and debility forbid them 
a personal participation in their labors. At this time, too, 
their presence is particularly desired, for the southern na¬ 
tions, never much relied on, are growing turbulent. The un¬ 
converted among them, and there are many of these notwith¬ 
standing the efforts of Padre Bravo at La Paz, Padre Napoli 
at San Jago, and Padre Guillen at Dolores, lose no occasion 
to insult and annoy those w r ho have embraced the cross. 
They become so troublesome that in 1723, Capt. Rodriguez, 
with a company of soldiers, marches into their districts, to 
intimidate them, and, if possible, put an end to their outbreaks. 
In 1725, also, he finds it necessary to go with an armed force 
against some rancherias of Uchities and Guaycuros, who have 
been stimulated into rebellion, by a few mulattoes and mesti¬ 
zoes, renegades of foreign privateers, that have touched at Cape 
San Lucas. These difficulties will ripen into fearful scenes. 
Another attempt is now made to found an establishment at 
Palmas bay, the original seat of the mission San Jago de los 
Coras. It is endowed by the Donna Rosa de la Penna, cousin 
