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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 12: Catholic missions. (search)
e tribes and families are abandoned to disease and death. Even in the two agencies, little has been done. Five years ago a trapper and a trooper were employed to rule and guard these savages. The trapper failed to mend their morals, the soldier to restrain their vagabond ways. Neither trapper nor trooper could prevent them from perishing in a country full of wild game, and in a climate favourable to length of days. If the Franciscans failed, they only failed where everybody fails. At Eureka, in the Humboldt Valley, American soldiers are stationed, as Spanish soldiers used to be stationed at San Carlos and Santa Clara. What is the result? American officers and soldiers take to Red women, much as Spanish officers and soldiers took to Red women. Knight, a Californian advocate, was sent to Humboldt Valley to report, and these are some of his unflattering words: There have been in this valley from one to two hundred soldiers, and I think at least half of their pay goes in t