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Nevertheless, he meets with so much violent opposition, that it 
requires all his address to advance his objects in such manner 
as not to arouse these Indians’ malevolence. But he succeeds, 
not only in bringing a great part of the unconverted to seek 
baptism, but also in winning their confidence and affection to 
such a degree, that at a future period they save his life at the 
risk of their own. 
CHAPTER XIV. 
A Rebellion attempted—Arrival from the Seas.—The Sick—Depart¬ 
ure—Disaffection among the Indians—Insurrection—Fearful Times 
—Martyrdom of Padres Carranco and Tamaral—All the Missions 
in a State of Revolt—The Padres retire to Loretto—Aid denied by 
the Viceroy—It comes from the Indians themselves—The Missions 
in the North send Delegates to the Padres—Peace made and Padres 
resume their Labors—Southern Missions recovered—Indians reduced 
to Subjection—Condition of the Conquest in 1745. 
Meantime, in the winter of 1733-4, some signs of revolt 
have appeared in the missions San Jago and San Josef. The 
chief, called Boton, the offspring of an Indian and a negro, a 
most profligate mulatto, who has been reproved by the Padre 
Carranco, for some of his excesses, and afterward continuing 
in the same practices, has been punished publicly, allies him¬ 
self with another mulatto, named Chicori, belonging to the 
mission San Josef, whom the Padre has also chidden on ac¬ 
count of similar vices. These miserable men seek revenge. 
Accordingly they excite the unfriendly Indians in every possi¬ 
ble way to an outbreak at San Jago. Padre Tamaral hearing 
of this, and unsuspicious that the like is growing in his own 
mission, hastens to San Jago to assist Padre Carranco in 
quelling the difficulties. Boton being absent when he ar- 
