The welcome which they gave us corresponded to their pleasure, and was such as may be imagined with people who spend all the days of their years without seeing any other faces than the
twelve or thirteen
to which most of these establishments are reduced, including the
missionaries
and the
guard
. And, aside from their long and painful
exile from the world
, as they say, we found them agitated by the
event that happened at San Diego
, thinking that after the first uprising another and worse one might have taken place, as the
rebels
threatened; and what is more, by the understanding that
I had appeared with my expedition
on the
Colorado River
, as the same rebels reported, just at the time of their rebellion, as was very easy for our people, induced by their own fear, to believe. But having seen me,
all melancholy and sadness disappeared
, and they have turned to giving thanks to
divine providence
and to the
present efficient government
, that in such a timely manner this aid in the way of troops should have come to them. -- From
Tubac
to the mission of
San Luís
,
271 1/2 leagues
.
