Excerpt from Texas and Its Late Military Occupation and EvacuationIN 17 90 the Jesuit Missions, successively estab lished northward of the Rio Grande during many preceding years, extended to the head-waters of the Nueces and the San Saba, and reached nearly to the Sabine river and the sea. The happy in¿uence which the Fathers had acquired over the Indians, seems to have been used with such complete and unremitting devotion to their welfare, that over their native prairies, they had learned to tend large herds and ¿ocks, while they looked with wonder upon unwonted scenes of wild peace and quiet, of the real nature and cause of which, they could have had no just appreciation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.