“It happens that they put on a heathen and abominable dance or fiesta; if the Christian who is present refuses to participate in that vile diversion, they mock him and laugh at him and persecute him until he gives in.”

Lasuén to Olmedo, San Carlos, 25 January 1803, ibid., 12:268

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