The History of Paraguay: Containing ... a Full and Authentic Account of the Establishments Formed There by the Jesuits, from Among the Savage Natives ... Establishments Allowed to Have Realized the Sublime Ideas of Fenelon, Sir Thomas Moore, and Plato, Volume 1P. & W. Wilson, 1769 - Indians of South America |
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Abipones affiftance Affumption againſt almoſt anſwer arrival becauſe befides beſt biſhop Brazil brigantines Buenos Ayres Cacique Calchaquis cauſed Chaco chriftians church command confiderable diocefe diſcovered Don Alvarez Don Bernardin Don Francis enemy eſpecially eſtabliſh faid fame father fecure fent ferve fervice feveral fhort fide fince firft firſt fituation foldiers fome foon ftill fubjects fuccefs fuch fuffered fufficient fuperior furprized governor greateſt Guaranis Guaycurus himſelf houſe immediately inhabitants Irala iſland jefuits Juan de Salazar la Plata laft laſt leaft leaſt likewife majefty Mamelus meaſures Mendoza miffionaries moft moſt muſt neceffary Neophytes obliged occafion paftors Paraguay Parana Pedro de Mendoza perfons Peru Plata prefent provifions province purpoſe reaſon received reductions refolved reft river ſcarce ſeveral ſhould ſome Spain Spaniards Spaniſh ſpeak ſtill thefe themſelves theſe theſe Indians thing thofe thoſe thought proper thouſand tion town Tucuman Uruguay uſe vifit whofe whoſe
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Page 286 - Over the greens and flowers which compose the triumphal arches, under which the blessed sacrament passes,there appear flocks of birds of every colour, tied by the legs to strings of such a length, that a stranger would imagine they enjoyed their full liberty, and were come of their own accord, to mix their warblings with the voices of the musicians and the rest of the people, and bless, in their own way, HIM whose providence carefully supplies all their wants.
Page 39 - ... any further lengths. It is therefore probable, he only meant this indulgence as a fnare to obtain a pretext for recalling the conditional reprieve he had granted Hurtado, who foon fupplied him with one. A few days after, Siripa's wife came to inform him, that Miranda...
Page 45 - ... he placed foldiers at all the out-lets to the country, with orders to fire upon thofe who mould endeavour to tranfgrefs his orders. A woman, however, called Maldonata was lucky enough to elude the vigilance of the guards ; and God twice preferved her by one of thofe exertions of his providence, to which public notoriety alone can extort belief from the incredulous, apt to take offence at every thing befide the common courfe of things. This woman, having for a long time rambled about the country,...
Page 259 - The flefh of thefe beafts is dealt out by the priefts, proportionable to the nifmber of perfons each family confifts of, fo that every one has a fufficiency to fupply the calls of nature, but nothing for wafte. He alfo vifits the fick, to fee that they want for nothing, and are attended with that care and tendernefs their condition requires.
Page 259 - ... requires. Thefe charitable employments take up fo great a part of the day, as often to leave him no time for affifting the father coadjutor in the fervices of the church.
Page 258 - ... wait on them, and alfo fing in the churches, form in every village a kind of fmall college, where the hours are under the fame regulation, and the exercifes fucceed each other with the fame formalities as in the great colleges of cities. The moft laborious part of the duty belonging to the prieft, is to vifit perfonally the chacaras or plantations of the Indians ; and in this they are remarkably fedulous, in order to prevent the ill confequences of that...
Page 37 - ... in the neighbourhood of the fort, and fet out for it, with thirty others loaded with refrefhments. On his arrival at the gates of it, he fent word to Lara, that, hearing how much he was in want of provisions, he was come with enough to ferve him, till the return of the convoy.
Page 38 - Her refufals ferved only to increafethe efteem Siripa had conceived for her, and heighten his paffion, which he ftill flattered himfelf he fhould be at laft able to fatisfy. He continued, therefore, to treat her with a great deal of lenity, and even fhewed her 'more civility and refpect than could be well expected from a barbarian.
Page 36 - Lara, on his fide, feeing himfelf furrounded by nations, from whom he could expeS no refpeEt t but in proportion as he could command it, thought the beft thing he could do, would be to gain over thofe neareft to him, which were the Timbuez ; and he fucceeded pretty well in the attempt. But his fuccefs foon proved fatal to him, in a manner he little dreamed of. Mangora, Cacique of the Timbuez, happening, in one of the frequent vifits...
Page 405 - They seldom rear but one child of each sex, murdering the rest as fast as they come into the world, till the eldest are strong enough to walk alone. They think to justify this cruelty by saying that, as they are almost constantly travelling from one place to another, it is impossible for them to take care of more infants than two at a time ; one to be carried by the father, and the other by the mother.