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Jimenez who was still at Espada Mission. He informed the missionary that agreeable to his request he had left the Sayopin Indian Andres at the Tlaxcalteca Mission in Monclova, Coahuila, where his wife should join him. He took occasion to manifest his gratefulness for the friendly interest taken in his welfare and inquired if Fray Jimenez could induce the missions in San Antonio or the Rio Grande to sell him some corn and beans, which he needed for the maintenance of the garrison and the establishment of a mission for the Apaches. With evident pride he narrated how he had blazed a new trail from San Fernando de Austria in Coahuila to San Saba directly, eliminating the need of going by way of San Antonio. 6 Fray Jimenez promptly replied on October 9, thanking him for having left the Indian Andres in Monclova and informing him that he had sent the wife to join him. Corn and beans, he assured the new commander, were scarce, but Mission Espada could spare, perhaps, as much as three hundred fanegas (600 bushels) of corn. This was the only mission that had a surplus. It was willing to sell these products at two ,pesos a fan-ega. As to beans, there were none available in quantity, but the price for the little that could be obtained was six pesos a fanega. Since he was about to return to Mission San Bernardo on the Rio Grande, he suggested that future requests for supplies be made to Father Fray Acisclos Valverde, who had instructions to procure them for him from any of the missions. Aware of the strong antagonism felt against Rabago among the majority of the old Texas missionaries, Fray Jimenez advised that the captain communicate directly with him at the Rio Grande in case of any differences or misunderstandings. 7 Conditions of Presidio de San Luis de las Amarillas. When Felipe de Rabago y Teran finally arrived at the San Saba River on September 30, he found a demoralized and poorly equipped garrison awaiting him. On the following day, he took formal possession of the post, which was turned over to him by Captain Manuel Rodriguez, of San Juan Bautista, who was left in aharge by Colonel Diego Ortiz Parrilla upon his departure to Mexico. Fully aware of the antagonistic feeling that prevailed in San Antonio, he had made his way directly from San Fernando de Austria to San Saba, thus opening a new and much more direct trail from the Rio Grande to the new presidia. 6 Fray Diego Jimenez to Captain Rlbago y Teran, August 19, 1761, p. 160; Rlbago y Teran to Fray Diego Jimenez, October 2, 1760. A. G. M., Hislorla, Vol. 84, pt. 1, pp. 139-142, 7Fray Diego Jimenez to Rabago y Teran, October 9, 1760. In Ibid., pp. 171-172.
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