The Indian Chief: The Story of a Revolution
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Aimard Gustave. The Indian Chief: The Story of a Revolution
CHAPTER I. THE INTERVIEW
CHAPTER II. THE MISSION
CHAPTER III. THE SPY
CHAPTER IV. THE EXPLOSION
CHAPTER V. THE FIRST POWDER BURNT
CHAPTER VI. REPRISALS
CHAPTER VII. GUETZALLI
CHAPTER VIII. THE ENVOY
CHAPTER IX. DOÑA ANGELA
CHAPTER X. THE AMBASSADORS
CHAPTER XI. THE PLAN OF THE CAMPAIGN
CHAPTER XII. FATHER AND DAUGHTER
CHAPTER XIII. LA MAGDALENA
CHAPTER XIV. THE COCK-FIGHT
CHAPTER XV. THE INTERVIEW
CHAPTER XVI. FATHER SERAPHIN
CHAPTER XVII. THE QUEBRADA DEL COYOTE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE SURPRISE
CHAPTER XIX. THE FORWARD MARCH
CHAPTER XX. BEFORE THE ATTACK
CHAPTER XXI. THE CAPTURE OF HERMOSILLO
CHAPTER XXII. AFTER THE VICTORY
CHAPTER XXIII. THE HACIENDA DEL MILAGRO
CHAPTER XXIV. THE BOAR AT BAY
CHAPTER XXV. THE BEGINNING OF THE END
CHAPTER XXVI. THE CATASTROPHE
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The Jesuits founded in Mexico missions round which, with the patience that constantly distinguished them, an unbounded charity, and a perseverance which nothing could discourage, they succeeded in collecting a large number of Indians, whom they instructed in the principal and most touching dogmas of their faith – whom they baptized, instructed, and induced to till the soil.
These missions, at first insignificant and a great distance apart, insensibly increased. The Indians, attracted by the gentle amenity of the good fathers, placed themselves under their protection; and there is no doubt that if the Jesuits, victims to the jealousy of the Spanish viceroys, had not been shamefully plundered and expelled from Mexico, they would have brought around them the majority of the fiercest Indios Bravos, have civilised them, and made them give up their nomadic life.
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The general had profited by the hunter's permission to rise; but so soon as he felt himself free, and his feet were firmly attached to the ground, a revolution was effected in him, and he felt his courage return.
"Listen in your turn," he said. "I will be as frank and brutal with you as you were with me. It is now a war to the death between us, without pity and without mercy. If I have to carry my head to the scaffold, the count shall die; for I hate him, and I require his death to satisfy my vengeance."
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