It is so with our own offspring, and nothing effaces the fairy scenes then printed on the memory.

Some of my liberados eagerly bought green calabashes and tasteless squash, with fine fat beef, because this trash was their early food; and an ounce of meat never entered their mouths.

It seems indispensable that each Mission should raise its own native agency.

A couple of Europeans beginning, and carrying on a Mission without a staff of foreign attendants, implies coarse country fare, it is true, but this would be nothing to those who, at home amuse themselves with fastings, vigils, &c.

A great deal of power is thus lost in the Church.