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CHAP. XL. 1755. Fresh accusations against the Jesuits. See p. 366. thing but perfect resignation and purity of intention could have enabled them to support: henceforth they might serve God with less trial of their patience. The views of his brother, as he well understood, extended beyond the deprivation of these Missionaries; and he therefore was eager to furnish accusations against men whose condemnation had been predetermined. The troops whom he had left upon the Rio Negro were without pay

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Carijos, who are described as a well disposed, docile, and indus 9 Not from the Indians, as Cazal affirms. The Indians took their name from the place. 10 F. Simam de Vasconcellos describes a phenomenon in the Serras here, which seems to resemble the helm-wind of Crossfell. He says, A notable thing is frequently experienced, which is, that from the ravines and hollows of these mountains, as from the caverns of another God Eolus, such great and furious winds arise (commonly North-westers) that they

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father would fain have persuaded him not to leave his native country and his parents, the youth overcame him by the eloquence with which he represented the devout sense of heroic duty: and he fell upon his neck, and said, Go on in thy own way, Clemente: thy arguments are better than mine! Go whither God calls thee! Funes. 3. 153 6. Peramas Baigorrii Vita. 20 30. Andrea Vita. 82 85. Destruction of their papers. Andrea Vita. 85. Funes. 3. 156. Fabro expected to meet with great riches at Cordoba; and

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Almeirim and Mazagam. That place was losing its inhabitants because of its unhealthy situation, which proved fatal even to persons brought thither from the coast of Morocco. Below Mazagam was Villa Vistoza da Madre de Deos, .. the Beautiful Town of the Mother of God! It ill deserved this lofty appellation. Three hundred families were planted there by the Government: some of them were good colonists from the Azores; but the greater number were criminals, foreign soldiers, and subjects taken from the

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utmost inhumanity; nor does the owner order a single mass for the soul of the poor creature, who has been worn to death in enriching him. I have seen some who were maimed in their hands and feet; others, whose sides and lower parts had been cut to pieces, .. the effect of such punishments that it is difficult to conceive how any human beings could be so monstrous in wickedness as to have inflicted them. But what can be expected? The fear of God is wanting, and if that be taken away, there is

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both parties. But in Brazil, if the Brazilians (which God in his mercy grant!) escape the curse of revolution, and the Government, pursuing its upright intentions, effect those reforms which are as easy as they are essential, in the course of a very few generations, all the remaining Indians will come within the pale of civilization, receive the faith of the Portugueze, adopt their language and their usages, and be incorporated with them as one people. Captaincy General of S. Paulo. Cazal. 1

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, and sometimes I served in the civill warres of Pirru, where I was wounded in divers parts of my body, and am now thereby lame in one of my legges and shoulder. I have neyther wife nor childe, and at this presente, God be praised! I have, in the Contractation house in the Citie of Sivill, in golde and plate, the summe of thirtie thousande Duckates, and I have also in Pirru in good lands and possessions the yearely rent of twelve thousande Duchates, whiche rentes and ready money is sufficients

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come hither with such commodities as would serue this countrey, would come to great gaines, God sending in safety the profite and gaines. In such wares and commodities as you may ship hither from London is for every one commoditie deliuered here three for one, and then after the proceed may be imployed in white sugar at four hundred reis the roue. I meane also to have a friend in London to sende mee a ship of 60 or 70 tunnes, little more or lesse, with such commodities as I shall give advise for

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soldiers heard music, like the chaunt of the litany, and a great light was seen. Sirs and comrades, said Pedro Aranha, the Captain's brother, without doubt this must be the souls of the departed, who are come to succour us. I am especially devoted to them, and every day commend them to God,...having this moment finished those prayers which I daily offer to God in their behalf. Let us promise them a chaunted mass to-morrow as soon as it shall be day, ... that being the day on which the Holy Catholic

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in the Country's service, for Brazil. But there was a great disinclination among the men, and many deserted, chusing rather to become vagabonds, says Aitzema, than go to Brazil. Vol. 3, p. 89. 12. Lichthart, p. 189.] Lichthart complained loudly of his treatment, and called God to witness that he would rather serve the Turks than the Company, saying an honourable man was too good to end his life in such an employment. He had some reason to complain, for upon one occasion, when he requested that

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move to compassion a man who calls himself Christian! How think you then that these names shall be heard in the hour of death when you yourself invoke them? But be assured that God hears the cries which you will not hear, and that though they produce no effect upon your own heart, without doubt and without remedy they will have effect on your punishment. Sermoens, t. 6, p. 427 8. In another Sermon he says, Nas outras terras, do que aram os homens, e do que fiam e tecem as molheres, se fazem os

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presumptuous folly of the Commander, for which he prays God to give him his reward23. 21 It is remarkable that Vespucci still calls it an Island, though he had previously discovered such a prodigious length of coast. 22 This should seem to be Bahia, .. though that discovery is afterwards ascribed to Christovam Jaques. 23 Simple drowning then he did not think punishment sufficient. There can be little doubt that the Commander of whom he speaks with so much asperity was Gonzalo Coelho. He went in 1503

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visiting the Reductions within his jurisdiction, and the Provincial also inspected them at stated times. There were two confraternities in each: one of St. Michael the Archangel, in which men were admitted from the age of twelve till thirty: the other of the Mother of God, to which only the most pious subjects were chosen, who made themselves over by bond to the service of the Queen of Angels; the deed was signed by the member himself, and countersigned by the Rector, and was then regarded with so much

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. edition, vol. 3, p. 170. It was Harcourt's intent, if God spared him, to make a perfect discovery of the famous river of Amazons, and of its several branches, and countries bordering upon it. He took out with him two Indians who had been in England some years, and were natives of Guiana, and he found one in the bay of Wiapoc who spoke our language well, having lived many years with Sir John Gilbert. Capt. Charles Lee had before taken possession of this country for England, and was buried at Wiapoc

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reeds and piercing itself between the legs till it had bled sufficiently. 43. Eoban, p. 182.] The baptismal name of this poet was Elias, which he thought proper to heatheuize into Helius, because he liked a Greek name better than a Jewish, and fancied that as a votary of Ph bus, he had some claim to be called after him. Eoban indeed had the same claim to be considered the son of a God, as Romulus before him, or as Prince Prettyman: he was born under a tree in the open fields in 1488, somewhere

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reveale it unto the officers above named. Also to doe your best indeavour to try for the best ore of golde, silver, or other rich mettals whatsoever. Forget not also to bring the kernals and seeds of strange plants with you, the palmito with his fruit inclosed in him. Serve God, keepe good watch, and stand always upon your garde. Hakluyt, Vol. 2. Part 2. 110. The ship, through meere dissolute negligence, was wrecked off the coast of Guinea, and all the crew, except one man, perished miserably by

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of his heart, thus publicly to bless God for his providential preservation. Aitzema has printed a letter which he wrote to his sister as soon as he was able to write: it shows him to have been a truly religious man. Aitzema, vol. 5, p. 406. Mauritz lived to a great age. He fought under his kinsman William III, then Prince of Orange, at the battle of Seneffe, in 1674, and, as William told Sir William Temple, with the greatest industry that could be sought all occasions of dying fairly in the

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heretics. Atended, y lo vereis, que Lutero es un enano: no hablen los Anabaptistas, y callen Calvino y Arrio, y el Alcoran de Mahoma es Pigmeo, comparado lo que quiero decir. De Ingalaterra no hablo, porque ya se queda atras despues que hay bonetes anchos. He concludes by calling upon all states and princes to expel this abominable order, as a sure way of enjoying joy, peace, and glory in this world, and obtaining a place at the right hand of God in the next! 31. Tobayaras, p. 513.] Jaboatam

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thanks to God for this great mercy, as that which could only come from his powerful hand, .. an opinion in which surely I think they were right. The old man, seeing that this sort of catering and attendance was continued, began however to enter into new doubts upon the matter, because he was too unworthy a sinner for this to be done for him by Heaven: so he resolved to conjure the unseen servant, and [page] 71

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estate, but only besides the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves in Europe, Lord of two or three Kingdoms in Affrique, of the Western Islands, the Madeiras, the Isles of Capo Verte, St. Thomas, the Empire of Goa in the East Indies, and of Brasilia in the West, alone bigger than all Europe together, .. poor things, God wot, that with good husbanding might only yield about nine or ten millions every year. Having remained some months in great favour at the Court of this benevolent Monarch, Fleckno was

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species of proteus.Zoologie Analytique, p. 93. Huitzlin means humming-bird; and opochtli means left; for the god was painted with humming bird's feathers under the left foot. The Europeans have corrupted the word huitzilopochtli into huichilobos, and vizlipuzli. The brother of this god, who was much revered by the inhabitants of Tezcuco, was called Tlaca-huepan-Cuexcotzin. VOL. II. C [page] 1

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STATISTICAL ANALYSIS. Population in 1803. Extent of Surface in square Leagues. No of Inhabitants to the square League. I. Intendancy of Mexico. 1,511,800 5,927 255 their god of war, and next at Iztacalco. They removed from Iztacalco to the little islands which then appeared to the E.N.E. of the hill of Chapoltepec, in the western part of the lake of Tezcuco, in obedience to an order of the oracle of Aztlan. An ancient tradition was preserved among this horde, that the fatal term of their

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STATISTICAL ANALYSIS. Population in 1803. Extent of Surface in square Leagues. No of Inhabitants to the square League. I. Intendancy of Mexico. 1,511,800 5,927 255 which represents the last king of Tlatelolco, called Moquihuix, as killed on the top of a house of God, or truncated pyramid; and then thrown down the stairs which led to the stone of the sacrifices. Since this catastrophe, the great market of the Mexicans, formerly held near the Teocalli of Mexitli, was transferred to Tlatelolco

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power in the person of the princes or tays; the struggle between Quautz and Matlox, the good and bad principle by which the world is governed; the origin of the human species at an epoqua when stags were without horns, birds without wings, and dogs without tails; the Eve of the Nootkians, who lived solitary in a flowery grove of Yucuatl, when the god Quautz visited her in a fine copper canoe; the education of the first man, who, as he grew up, past from one small shell to a greater; the

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of our sovereign, to exhort Montezuma and his subjects to desist from human sacrifices and other outrages; adding: "I now require all who hear me, to renounce your inhuman sacrifices, cannibal feasts, and other abominable customs; for such is the command of GOD, whom we adore." The natives listened to all this in profound silence, and Cortes proposed to the soldiers to destroy the idols and plant the holy cross, as had been already done at Chempoalla; but Father Olmedo recommended that this