Missionary Adventures in Texas and Mexico: A Personal Narrative of Six Years' Sojourn in Those Regions. By the Abbé DomenechIn the author's first journey, 1846-50, various points in Texas were visited; on his second sojourn, 1851-52, he made his headquarters at Brownsville, Tex., with visits to neighboring places in Texas and Mexico. |
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Page 137 - Is any man sick among you ? Let him bring in the priests of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, and the prayer of faith shall save the sick man ; and the Lord shall raise him up : and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him...
Page 9 - Here's to the United States ! " said the first speaker, — " bounded on the north by British America, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, on the east by the Atlantic, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean...
Page 48 - Dubuis went to our little barn for some maize, and took up a serpent in his hand, mistaking it for a blade of corn ; another day a cobra de capello glided into our school-room, and was on the point of biting one of the children, when M.
Page 255 - ... the mid-day repast, the Mexicans have their siesta, which lasts according to the season several hours. When the ranchero is not either resting or amusing himself, he mounts his horse and canters over the plains and through the woods, to see his herds, to visit his friends, to buy provisions, or assist at a feast, a baptism, a marriage, or join in the fandango ; but the ranchero never walks.
Page 2 - You will not always," he frankly told them, " have wherewith to satisfy the calls of hunger and thirst. Your journcyings will be incessant, through a country as yet but little known, and boundless in its extent. You will pass nights on the damp ground, and entire days exposed to a burning sun. Perils of every kind you will encounter, which will try yonr courage and energy at every step.
Page 54 - ... steps quite out of sorts. The second passage of the river was even more dangerous than the first, and I was nigh falling into a hole, into which the water flung itself with tremendous fury. What was to be done now ? We cut a long thick liane, which was to be our harpoon ; and having advanced into the water up to the waist, I cast it over the crocodile's back (for by this time his back was again uppermost), and we by this means drew him to the bank. All at once, his tail commenced to lash our...
Page 259 - They hardly know more than two sacraments, baptism and matrimony, and they made no scruple of dispensing themselves from the latter, while they valued confession only at the hour of death. Marriage was...
Page 205 - ... than in a barbarian country. Still I did not lose heart at a trifle of this kind, but made up my mind to go to Rome on foot, by daily marches, like the soldiers. In the Eternal City in vain I sought gratuitous hospitality. I put myself into the hands of Providence for the payment of my expenses, and I asked an audience of the Holy Father, who at once acceded to my request.
Page 322 - ... and imperfect being! we ask and demand of thee that we may know thee, for to know thee is to know more of ourselves.
Page 48 - In my repertory might be seen a centipede eleven inches long, and a caterpillar thirteen inches in length and two in circumference. As for serpents, I had them of all sizes and of every variety. Selection was easy ; they were everywhere under our feet ; we walked on them, and crushed them unconsciously, without paying any attention to the fact. The business of destroying them was left to the pigs, the cats, and even the fowls. These fell resolutely on the serpent's head, and devoured it, without...