PART II
WHEN DOCAS LIVED AT THE MISSION
He decided to go to the Mission to live.
PART II
WHEN DOCAS LIVED AT THE MISSION
DOCAS GOES TO LIVE AT THE MISSION
AFTER Father Pena had saved Massea from being tortured, Massea liked him very much,—so much that he decided to go to the Mission to live.
Therefore after a few days they gathered together their baskets, their bows and arrows, and some seeds. Then they were ready to start, for they had nothing more to take with them. Docas walked with Heema, his little brother. Massea walked at the side of Ama, who was carrying Keoka, Docas’s baby sister. Alachu trotted behind.
When they came to the Mission they found that some of the Indians who were already there had helped Father Pena to build a very large brush house. This the Father called a church. Near it was the Father’s hut, and off at one side were the huts of the Indians. These huts were built in rows, but they were of brush just as they had always been.
As soon as they arrived, Docas and Massea went off a little way to the creek, where there were many willow trees growing. They broke off the leafy branches and carried them up to the Mission to make their own hut. When they had a large pile of branches they began to build it.
First they stuck one end of a branch into the ground. They did that with all the branches until they had a circle, putting the branches so close together that Docas could hardly look between them.