The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 2, July 1898 - April, 1899 Page: 307
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Discovery of Bay of Esiritu Santo.
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for since the only rank or title they know is that of captain, they
call "Great Captain" him whom they consider as great above all
things. Similarly, in order to give the governor a distinguishing
name they call him "desza," which means "Great Lord and supe-
rior to all."
When the church and the dwelling intended for the priests had
been finished they carried into these buildings all that was to be
left for the priests, and on the morning of the first of June, a week
from the feast of Corpus Christi, we consecrated the church and
celebrated mass, after which the Te Deum Laudamus was sung in
thanksgiving, the soldiers firing a royal salute. The church and
village were dedicated to our Holy Father St. Francis.
After dinner on that same day our company left the place, to
return hither, but I remained until the next day, when I went to
join the others on the way. The night before I left the place I
called the governor, bidding him remember that he must take care
of the fathers who remained there and try to cause his people to
respect them and to receive the Christian doctrine. I told him the
the fathers would not take anything away from them, nor ask them
for anything, but rather help them whenever they were able. And
the governor said: "I shall take care of the fathers, so that, when
you return, they will have no complaint to bring against me; they
are perfectly safe, and may remain." I then told him that I should
be gratified if his brother and some other one of his relatives would
come with me to visit our possessions and bring back numerous
presents for those who remained at home, and that our great cap-
tain the Viceroy was anxious to see them, and entertained very
kindly feelings towards them. The governor then replied that his
brother with two other relatives and a nephew of his would ac-
company me, and he thus admonished me:-"Do not permit any-
one to demand service from these men whom you take with you,
nor to make them work." From these words of his it is evident
that they have among them the idea of rank, and that they dis-
tinguish their nobles from the mass of the people.
From the time of our arrival at the 'Tejas village until we left
I took note of many things and learned something about certain
men whose conduct proved so different from what it had seemed
to be when we were on the road, that I hardly knew them for the
same persons after we were in the village. Evidently some of them
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Texas State Historical Association. The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 2, July 1898 - April, 1899, periodical, 1898/1899; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101011/m1/311/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.