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Mission of San Jose more than 1200 deaths are noted down - this would prove that a state of Christianity & civilization such as the Missionaries gave them, did not tend to enable their numbers, & the Wild life they sighed after, they could not get, thus reduced them - & it appears that no particular disaster or excesses thus anihilated them - After the indians were thus got rid of, Many Mexicans came in & commenced working the lands opened by the Native indians. Part of the produce of the land and catch, went to supply the garrison at the Alamo, the Missionaries being paid for the same.

 The Military was a proud and overbearing to all they considered beneath them; but when the Comanches attacked the settlements