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The Adventures of Torqua; Being the Life and Remarkable Adventures of Three Boys, Refugees on the Island of Santa Catalina (Pimug-Na) in the Eighteent

The Adventures of Torqua; Being the Life and Remarkable Adventures of Three Boys, Refugees on the Island of Santa Catalina (Pimug-Na) in the Eighteent

          
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The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of literature that are out-of-print or on the verge of becoming lost. This book is one such reprint.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. TORQUA. THE remarkable exhibition of fear and superstition on the part of the San Juan Capistrano Indians was due to an eclipse of the moon. Father Anselmo told the boys that they had a tradition very similar to that of the Chinese, that a huge dragon was continually scouring the heavens trying to catch the moon; that sometimes it succeeded ; and as it was being swallowed if they could frighten it by loud cries, it would release its victim and the satellite would be saved, hence the beating of hides and the throwing of sand and stones at the supposed dragon. The boys rapidly learned the ways of the Padres, and were assigned positions as herders or cow-boys of the vast flocks of the mission, having under them a number of Indians, who were constantly on the watch fearing that the warlike desert D "-S 0 a Indians would successfully stampede the cattle, which they often attempted. One of the latter especially attracted them, a youth named Torqua, who took them to the summit of a high hill one day and showed them a large island, Pimug-na he Indians Stampeding Stock. called it, though the Fathers said it was Santa Catalina, named after the saint's day on which it was discovered. The island was Torqua's home, and he told the boys that his father and mother and all his friends were there, and that he and twenty or thirty others had been brought over by the Fathers to learn the religion of the Spaniards and to work. Torqua evidently longed for his island home; hetalked about it continually, describing its beauties, its wonderful fish, the game, the herds of monster seals, the wealth of his people and their canoes, and it was evident that his novitiate was more or less compulsory and that he resented the action of the Padres. The winter days at San...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458856210
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 186 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458856216
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 104 gr

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