The History of Paraguay Volume 1; Containing a Full and Authentic Account of the Establishments Formed There by the Jesuits, from Among the Savage Nat (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1769 Excerpt: ...to which he had sworn, and had even conspired with another apostate Cacique, to ruin, a third time, the town of Jujuy; and, though this report had no foundation, the governor of Jujuy thought proper to put it out of the power of the Caciques to hurt him and having then found means to draw them into the place, secured their persons. This was enough to render the Omaguacas irreconcilable; but father Agnasco, who very fortunately happened to be then at Jujuy, and father Monroy, who hastened back to it, on the first notice he received of the governor's behaviour, repaired all the mischief that had been done. The two prisoners were set at liberty; kindly used by the inhabitants; and, after some friendly conferences with the governor, terminated all differences by a sincere return to the gospel. The whole nation soon followed their example. Soon after, the missionaries, thinking it absolutely requisite to reT move them from that part of the country they novy now occupied, as it could not be reasonably expected they should long remain there without their neighbours attempting to seduce them; the new' christians consented to this transmigration with more readineis than could at first be well expected from them; and followed their spiritual fathers to a spot nearer Tucuman, where a zealous secular priest, who understood their language perfectly well, was appointed to govern them. This event was soon followed by the deaths of father-Barsena, in Peru; and father Salonio, at the Assumption; the loss of whom was immediately felt, though their places were soon filled up by others; the call for evangelical labourers encreasing in these provinces, in a much greater proportion, than it was possible to supply it. That of Guayra, especially, was become, from day to day, more ...