The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 10, July 1906 - April, 1907 Page: 122
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
d6n was refused the requisite funds. Had the government sup-
ported Escand6n in this and his subsequent efforts to plant colonies
between the San Antonio and the Rio Grande, there seems no good
reason why the Spanish hold might not have been made as secure in
this region as it was beyond the Rio Grande.' But this it failed
to do.
Nevertheless, the removal of Bahia to Santa Dorotea was fol-
lowed by an effort to revive missionary work among the Karan-
kawan tribes which resulted in the successful establishment of mis-
sion Rosario.
4. The Quarrel Between Queretarans and Zacatecans Over the
Cujanes.
On April 14, 1750, the viceroy exhorted the missionaries at the
new site to do all in their power to reduce, congregate, and convert
the Cujanes, Carancaguases, and Guapites. They were to be treated
with the utmost kindness, given presents, and promised, on behalf
of the government, that if they would settle in a pueblo they
would be given new missions, protected, and supplied with all neces-
saries.' Similar instructions were written to Captain Manuel
Ramirez de la Piszina, the new commander of the presidio of Bahia.
If we may trust the reports of the missionaries and the cap-
tain, they went zealously to work among these three tribes in
response to the viceroy's order. But little or nothing seems to have
been accomplished until their rivals, the Queretaran friars at San
Antonio, entered the same field.3
At this time the Queretaran missions at San Antonio were short
of neophytes, partly because of an epidemic that had made ravages
among the mission Indians.' On the other hand these missions
were just now under the direction of Father Fr. Juan Mariano de
los Dolores, one of the leaders of the missionary revival which we
have mentioned. For these reasons, and since the Karankawans had
'Cf. Escand6n's report, July 27, 1758, again urging the colonization of
this whole strip of country.
2Summary by Camberos, missionary at this time in Bahia.
$Piszina to the viceroy, Dec. 26, 1751; Camberos to the viceroy, May 30,
1754.
'Father Dolores, missionary at San Antonio, to Father Gonzales, mis-
sionary at Espiritu Santo, June 17, 1751.
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