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too suspicious to be inserted in the text: We know as well as the Peros that there is one who has created all things, who is all good, and that it is he who hath given us the soul which is immortal. We believe also that because of the wickedness of men God sent a deluge over all the world, to punish them, and he preserved only one good father and one good mother, from whom we are all descended, and we and you were then one. But some time after the deluge God sent his bearded Prophets to instruct

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CHAP. VII. 1552. cordingly home they all came. Yeppipo called for Hans and said to him. You told me that the moon looked angrily upon my house, and now behold we are all stricken with sickness. Your God has done this in his wrath. Hans had forgotten the conversation about the moon; being thus reminded of it, he himself believed it to have been prophetic, and replied, that God was angry because they meant to eat one who was not their enemy. The Chief protested that he should not be eaten if he

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the survivors; there were among them Diogo and Domingos de Braga, two of the brethren who first settled at Bertioga, and he had been intimate with them. Their first question was, whether they were to be eaten. He had poor comfort to give; all he could say was, it was as God pleased, in whom and in his Son they must put their trust: it had pleased God to preserve him among the Savages, as they perceived. They enquired for their kinsman Jeronymo; .. his body was then upon the Boucan, and part of

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protected by the Great Palm. Another party were restrained from killing him only by their persuasion that he was a Conjurer, an argument which the Great Palm urged with excellent effect, enforcing it with all his authority, and a threat of vengeance. There was one Antonio Dias with him, who was come to ransom his wife and children; he happened to be a mason, and the plea which preserved his life was, that he built the houses of the Christian Payes, and of their God, and therefore that God would

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, who might protect him and his people, and succour them in their need. Another Indian, who, avowing his contempt for Idols, had set himself up as an object of worship, was invited by the Portugueze to the knowledge of the true God. He came at their request, to be instructed, but when he found that their God was not visible, returned unpersuaded, and continued his claims to adoration, either in insanity, or fraud. Their Conjurors. M. Rodriguez. 117. Every where they had their Conjurors: there is

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vision, a fine image was found among the stones. A more intelligible miracle has never been enacted. God is with me, exclaimed Joam Fernandes at this invention, and the glorious St. John the Baptist, my namesake, seeks to do me service! I promise to build a church to him upon this place where his image has appeared, as soon as God shall have brought the enterprize of our deliverance to a happy end! The fame of this miracle spread throughout the province, and the people, delighted by this proof of

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strength. Yet persons who advised peace a few days ago have changed their opinion in consequence of this news! Ought we to trust in such things? It is better to deserve miracles than to expect them; but to rely upon them, even when we deserve them, is tempting God. But Vieyra rested his main argument upon the state of India, and the certain loss of all their possessions there if the contest with Holland were persisted in. As a proof of the impossibility of succouring those distant conquests, he

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subject; he could destroy them with a breath, and with a breath re-create them: that he was three in person, and yet one God, for with the splendour of his countenance he had produced his companion, and the woman proceeded from them both. This speech he accompanied with yells, and menaces of destruction to all who should oppose him, shaking his rattle at F. Cataldino, and with antic gestures threatening to destroy him and his converts. The Jesuit, however, relying upon his authority over the

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by his own peculiar manner. Things, said he, are estimated by what they cost: .. what then did a Soul cost our Saviour, and what did the World cost him? The World cost him a word, .. he spake, and it was made! A Soul cost him his life and his blood. But if the World cost only a word of God, and a Soul cost the blood of God, a Soul is worth more than all the World; .. thus Christ thought, and thus the Devil himself cannot fail to confess. Yet we value our souls so cheaply, that you know at what a

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comrade tore up their shirts for this service. The character of the Jesuits was now so well known, that even when they accompanied an expedition like this the Indians offered them no injury. Before the Portugueze embarked Sotto-Mayor gave his Crucifix to one of the Royalets, telling him that from that moment the God whom he there saw represented took possession of the island and its inhabitants; that that God would soon incline their hearts to peace, and that he left him there in pledge. Sotto

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CHAP. XXXVII. 1742. out of all tune, but with God would be like the music of Angels. His Negroes had been ordered to fire three salutes during the service; one in honour of All Saints, the second at the elevation of the wafer, the third at the elevation of the cup. This threw the Indians into a tremor and cold sweat, and strengthened the impression which the Jesuit desired to make. Manoel Felix de Lima. MS. Departure of the Portugueze. Manoel Felix de Lima. MS. But Manoel Felix was more

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CHAP. XXXIX. 1756. gueze; .. we will never believe it. Why does he not give them Buenos Ayres, S. Fe, Corrientes, and Paraguay? Why must the command fall only upon us poor Indians, that we should leave our houses, our churches, all that we have and that God has given us? If they want to confer, let no more than five Spaniards come: the Father who is for the Indians will interpret. In this manner things may be done as God pleases; and if not, they must go as the Devil will. The ablest memorial

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schedule to the Governor, containing a list of all the plantations in his jurisdiction, the names of the labourers, and an account of the crops, with a specification of those persons who had neglected their agricultural duties, that the Governor might from this document know whom to commend and whom to chastise. Directorio. May 3, 1757. 16 26. All human measures, said the Law, being useless, unless they are protected by the arm of Divine Omnipotence, in order that God may bless the labour of the

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sinner sometimes turned away from his iniquity; nor can it be doubted but that the peace of God was vouchsafed to the humble spirit and the broken heart which sought fervently and sincerely for consolation and forgiveness through faith. Charity toward the poor may also be men 42 An achievement of Almeida's, huma valentia his biographer calls it, may be referred to, (2, 2, 5) which is too filthy to be recited. It is compared to a still filthier exploit of Xavier; and indeed the Hagiology of this age

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vengeance was upon him, and upon the anniversary of the murder he himself suffered a violent and undeserved death. He made a public confession of his crime upon the scaffold, and expressed a hope and trust that God, who had thus inflicted due punishment upon him in this world, would remit it in the next. When the Spaniards approached Asumpcion Abrego refused them admittance, and Yrala immediately besieged him. Whatever may have been the misdeeds of this intrepid adventurer, he was popular in his

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, and his hands, and his grave, gave out a great fragrance. It is laid down by Morales as one of the axioms on which he proceeds in his history, that whatever one saint relates of another is implicitly to be believed. 7 Que sabe Dios qual el las ha juntado. Argentina. C. 6. God knows how he had collected them, .. is the significant expression of D. Martin. [page] 34

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CHAP. XXIV. Spaniards, and seeking vengeance in return; neither acknowledging King nor God; worshipping the Devil in this world, and condemned to him everlastingly in the next. These people the Jesuits undertook to reclaim with no other weapons than those of the Gospel, provided they might pursue their own plans, without the interference of any other power; and provided the Spaniards, over whose conduct they could have no control, were interdicted from coming among them. The Spanish Government

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CHAP. XXXVII. 1742. which serve the Brazilian Portugueze either for their meals or their murders, and a pistol. He himself stood erect in the canoe, with an Indian walking-cane in his hand; and in this manner, says he, I made for the port, at all risks, trusting in God our Lord, and in our Lady of the Conception, who always was my helper. Manoel Felix de Lima. MS. Manoel Felix lands. As soon as he landed he was met by a great number of old men, who were dressed in their gala attire to receive

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charges against the Company, .. charges, it was said, which the King had long abstained from preferring, because of his incomparable clemency, and his pious devotion to the glorious Saints Loyola, Xavier, and Borja. But such, it was averred, was the extreme corruption into which the Jesuits in his dominions had fallen, that they now seemed to be merchants, or soldiers, or Royalets, rather than Religioners. Many were the Governors and Ministers, faithful servants of God and of his Crown, whom [page] 53

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found it) to have there ended my unfortunate life. But God suffered not such happinesse to light upon me, for I could by no meanes finde it, so as I was forced to goe towards England, and having gotten 8 degrees by north the line, I lost my most dearest cousin. And now consider whether a heart made of flesh be able to indure so many misfortunes, all falling upon me without intermission. I thank my God that in ending of me, he hath pleased to rid me of all further trouble and mishaps. And now

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, which we have met with is ample proof that God has been pleased to inflict upon our enemies the punishment of this war for the many outrages committed against this country. You are not ignorant of our strength, which far exceeds yours; and by quitting Paraiba and Goyana we are considerably increased in number, the inhabitants chusing rather to lose their possessions than to endure the indignities which were offered them. This has been the true cause of the insurrection, and not, as has falsely

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resignation of his government, as he had given to Pedro de Alvarado, he was to accept it, or even one hundred thousand, unless it should appear more profitable not to close with such an offer. How strong must his hope of plunder have been, after four years of continued disappointment and misery! .. Moreover, he charged his successor, if it should please God to give him any jewel or precious stone, not to omit sending it him, as some help in his trouble. And he instructed him to form a settlement

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CHAP. V. 1542. Coment.. 16. learn how to kill their enemies. It is said that the skulls of these people were so thick, that though one blow with the macana would fell an ox, it required five or six to bring one of them down. He who struck the first blow at one of these butcheries, took from that time the name of the victim. Cabeza de Vaca assembled these Guaranies, and told them that as vassals of the King of Spain they must leave off such abominations, and come to the knowledge of God and the

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then gave thanks to God for having found the place which they sought, confidently believing that it was in consequence of their prayers, because it happened to be St. Catharine's day. This man had been sent from Asumpcion three 1 The cabbage-tree, and all of its kind, would probably have been extirpated if it had not been so laborious to cut it down. It was the hard work of half a day for a man with an axe to get the tree down and cut off its head. Pedro de Cie a. ff. 19. [page] 17

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CHAP. VII. 1552. ashore, and kindled a fire, to which they brought their prisoner. They laid him in a hammock, fastened the cords which were still kept round his neck, to a tree, and from time to time through the night informed him, in their mirth, that he was now their beast. The next day a storm arose, and they called upon him to pray that it might not destroy them. Hans obeyed, beseeching God to shew the savages that his prayers were heard, and presently he heard them say the clouds were