A777    Beagle Library:     Frézier, Amédée François. 1717. A voyage to the South-Sea and along the coasts of Chili and Peru in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. London: Jonah Bowyer.   Text

of other Privileges they have in the Indies, and whereof they were making a particular Theological Treatise at the Time when I was at Santiago; for which Reason the Parish Churches are little resorted to there: There are three besides the Cathedral, being S. Paul, S. Anne, and S. Isidore, whose Churches are the smallest, and the most neglected. There are eight Monasteries of Men, three of Franciscans, two of Jesuites, one of the Mercenarians, one of the Brethren of S. John of God, and one of

A777    Beagle Library:     Frézier, Amédée François. 1717. A voyage to the South-Sea and along the coasts of Chili and Peru in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. London: Jonah Bowyer.   Text

Garde. Passage des Chaloupes, The Way for the Boats. Isla de Guana, Guana Island. A. S. Mark's Parish. G. The Magazines of Guana. B. The Square. H. Project de S. Francois, The Plan of S. Francis. C. The Mercenarians. D. S. John of God. I. Guts, or Channels. E. The Fort. K. Watering-Place on the Edge of the Sea, in the Sand. F. The Rums of the Entrenchments. [page break

A777    Beagle Library:     Frézier, Amédée François. 1717. A voyage to the South-Sea and along the coasts of Chili and Peru in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. London: Jonah Bowyer.   Text

Man's Bay. Echelle d'une liee marine dc 2853 Toises, A Scale of a Sea League, containing 2853 Fathoms. Une Lieie, League. In the Compartiment. The Plan of the Town of P I SCO. A. The Parish Church. B. The Jesuites. C. S. Francis. P. The Square. D. The Hospital of S. John of God. E. The Magdalen, a Chappel of the Indians. F. The Play-House. [page] 18

A777    Beagle Library:     Frézier, Amédée François. 1717. A voyage to the South-Sea and along the coasts of Chili and Peru in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. London: Jonah Bowyer.   Text

questioned whether he could recover. Masquerade. On Saturday Night there was a Masquerade of People running about the Streets by Candle-light, as they do in France at the Carnaval or Shrovetide: The Prime Actors were in a Cart, preceded by others on Horse-back. On that Cart I took Notice of a Man clad in the Habit of the Friers of S. John of God, who I. was assured was really a Frier; but I could not persuade myself that it was any other than a Mask, for on the Cart he stood up and danc'd with Women such

A777    Beagle Library:     Frézier, Amédée François. 1717. A voyage to the South-Sea and along the coasts of Chili and Peru in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. London: Jonah Bowyer.   Text

. 14. Our Lady of Guadalupe. 15. The Noviciate of the jesuites. 16. Our Lady of the Orphans. 17. S. Teresa. 18. S. John of God, an Hospital. 19. The Incarnation. 20. The Trinity. 21. S. Martin. Jesuites. 22. S. Paul, Jesuites. 23. New S. Rose, Retired Women. 24. The Conception. 25. S. Peter Nolafcus. 26. S. Katharine. 27. S. Bartholomew's Hospital for Blacks. 28. S. Andrew's Hospital. 29. S. Anne's Parish Church 30. S. Thomas of Aquin. 31. Our Lady of Mount Carmel. 32. The Barefoot-Nuns. 33. S

A777    Beagle Library:     Frézier, Amédée François. 1717. A voyage to the South-Sea and along the coasts of Chili and Peru in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. London: Jonah Bowyer.   Text

suspected. Thence it proceeds, that those People scarce know what it is to pray to God; but they only address themselves to the Virgin and the Saints. Thus the Accessory of Religion almost extinguishes the Principal. Those People are not only credulous to excess, but also superstitious. They add to the Beads they wear about their Necks some Habillas, being a Sort of Sea Chesnuts, and another Sort of Fruit of the like Nature, resembling the Shape of a Pear, call'd Chonta, with Nutmegs, and other such

A777    Beagle Library:     Frézier, Amédée François. 1717. A voyage to the South-Sea and along the coasts of Chili and Peru in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. London: Jonah Bowyer.   Text

, Self-love, which still leaves in the Heart a Desire of Eternizing one's self, when going to be cut off from the Number of Men, makes us preferr Foundations above other good Works, because they are more proper for that End, and perhaps because they are thought more Efficacious. In a word, whether it be through the Fear of Pains, which touches us most to the Quick, or for the Love of God and one's self, the Custom is become fo universal, and has so much enrich'd the Monasteries of Lima,, and of

A777    Beagle Library:     Frézier, Amédée François. 1717. A voyage to the South-Sea and along the coasts of Chili and Peru in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. London: Jonah Bowyer.   Text

all Likelihood Peru will afford Heaven more Saints, than it has given Silver, to the Earth,. Vertue seems to me to be more common among the Laity, than among the Friers and the Clergy; I make no scruple to say so, it would be a false Nicety to spare Men who dishonour their Profession without Controul, under Pretence that they are consecrated to God by solemn Vows. All Vices, says Juvenal, are the more criminal, by as much as he is the greater who is guilty of them. This is what I have to object

A777    Beagle Library:     Frézier, Amédée François. 1717. A voyage to the South-Sea and along the coasts of Chili and Peru in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. London: Jonah Bowyer.   Text

corrupted, your Gold and Silver is canker'd, and the Rust of them shall eat your Flesh as it were Fire, for they ruin themselves in debauching with the Women; and they themselves observe, that whether it is that God punishes them for those criminal Expences, or, as others think, that the Estates they have are unjustly usurp'd from the Indians, they are scarce ever seen to descend to the third Generation. What the Father rakes together with much Trouble, and often with much Injustice in the

A777    Beagle Library:     Frézier, Amédée François. 1717. A voyage to the South-Sea and along the coasts of Chili and Peru in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. London: Jonah Bowyer.   Text

The Indians do not drink any Wine, or other hot Liquors. Herein the good Fathers copy after the Law of Mahomet, who forbad them to his Followers, left being inflamed, they should be apt to raise Commotions, give Disturbance to his Despotick Government, and perhaps shake off the Yoke he had laid upon their Necks. They marry the Indians young, for the fake of Procreation; and the first Catechism they teach their Children, is the Fear of God and of the Jesuite, the Contempt of Temporal Goods, and

A753    Book:     Byron, John. 1768. The narrative of the Honourable John Byron (Commodore in a late expedition around the world) containing an account of the great distresses suffered by himself and his companions on the coast of Patagonia, from the year 1740, till their arrival in England, 1746. London: S.Baker and G. Leigh, and T. Davies.   Text

and ammunition, and some other necessaries. When we parted, they stood upon the beach, giving us three cheers, and called out, God bless the king, We saw them a little after, setting out upon their forlorn hope, and helping one another over a hideous tract of rocks; but considering the difficulties attending this only way of travelling left them; for the woods are impracticable, from their thickness, and the deep swamp every where to be met in them; considering too, that the coast here is

A753    Book:     Byron, John. 1768. The narrative of the Honourable John Byron (Commodore in a late expedition around the world) containing an account of the great distresses suffered by himself and his companions on the coast of Patagonia, from the year 1740, till their arrival in England, 1746. London: S.Baker and G. Leigh, and T. Davies.   Text

a little after our fatigue; but the cold was so excessive, having neither shoe nor stocking, we thought we should have loft our feet; and captain Cheap was so ill, that if he had had but a few leagues further to have gone without relief, he could not have held out. It pleased God now that our sufferings, in a great measure, were drawing to an end. What things our cacique had brought with him from the wreck, he here buried under ground, in order to conceal them from the Spaniards, who would not

A745    Beagle Library:     Bougainville, Louis Antoine de. 1772. A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London: J. Nourse and T. Davies.   Text

hand that smote them, and acknowledging, as they said, that their sins had deserved the punishment which God inflicted on them. The Jesuits of Cordoua, in number above a hundred, arrived towards the end of August, at the Encenada, whither those from Corrientes, Buenos Ayres, and Montevideo, came soon after. They were immediately embarked, and the first convoy failed, as I have already said, at the end of September. The others, during that time, were on the road to Buenos Ayres, where they

A745    Beagle Library:     Bougainville, Louis Antoine de. 1772. A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London: J. Nourse and T. Davies.   Text

every corner in the Chinese quarter. The Roman people called for bread and shows; the Chinese must have commerce and farces. God forbid I should ever again hear the declamations of their actors and actresses, which is always accompanied with some instruments. It. is an overstrained recitative accompanied, and I know of nothing that can be more ridiculous, except their gestures. I must likewise observe, that I cannot properly speak of their actors, because the parts of men are always acted by women

A745    Beagle Library:     Bougainville, Louis Antoine de. 1772. A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London: J. Nourse and T. Davies.   Text

on this nation, by sending back their fellow-countryman well treated, by us, and enriched by the useful knowledge which he would bring them. Would to God that the necessity and the zeal which inspired us, may not prove fatal to the bold Aotourou! His stay at Paris. I have spared neither money nor trouble to make his stay at Paris agreeable and useful to him. He has been there eleven months, during which he has not given any mark at all of being tired of his stay. The desire of seeing him has

A745    Beagle Library:     Bougainville, Louis Antoine de. 1772. A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. London: J. Nourse and T. Davies.   Text

tolerably high in this part, is covered with houses, and the sea-shore full of enclosures, for catching fish in. The other shore of the passage is perpendicular; its point is distinguishable by two sections, which form as it were two stories in the rock. After passing the galley, the lands on both sides are quite steep, and in some parts even hang over the channel. One would think, that the god of the sea had opened a passage here for his swelled waters, by a stroke of his trident. However, the aspect

A781.03    Beagle Library:     Hawkesworth, John. 1773. An account of the voyages undertaken for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour drawn from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks. 3 vols. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell. vol. 3.   Text

1770. September. The religion of these people, according to Mr. Lange's information, is an absurd kind of paganism, every man chusing his own god, and determining for himself how he should be worshipped; so that there are almost as many gods and modes of worship as people. In their morals, however, they are said to be irreproachable, even upon the principles of Christianity: no man is allowed more than one wife; yet an illicit commerce between the sexes is in a manner unknown among them

A781.01    Beagle Library:     Hawkesworth, John. 1773. An account of the voyages undertaken for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour drawn from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks. 3 vols. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell. vol. 1.   Text

shed called Tupapow, under which the dead are deposited, and a representation of the person who performs the principal part in the funeral ceremony in his peculiar dress; with a man climbing the bread-fruit tree to get out of his way. VI. A view in the Island of Huaheine; with the Ewharra no Eatua, or House of God; a small altar with its offering; and a tree called Owharra with which the houses are thatched. VII. A view of the inside of a house in the Island of Ulietea, with the representation of

A781.02    Beagle Library:     Hawkesworth, John. 1773. An account of the voyages undertaken for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour drawn from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks. 3 vols. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell. vol. 2.   Text

neckcloth, some beads, two small bunches of feathers, and some plantains, as presents to their Eatua, or God. In return for these, he received for our Eatua, a hog, some young plantains, and two small bunches of feathers, which he ordered to be carried on board the ship. After these ceremonies, which we supposed to be the ratification of a treaty between us, every one was dismissed K k 2 [page] 25

A781.02    Beagle Library:     Hawkesworth, John. 1773. An account of the voyages undertaken for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour drawn from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks. 3 vols. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell. vol. 2.   Text

1769. July. Thursday 21. last oblation or sacrifice, a hog of about eighty pounds weight, which had been offered whole, and very nicely roasted. Here were also four or five Ewharre-no-Eatua, or houses of God, to which carriage poles were fitted, like that which we had seen at Huaheine. One of these Mr. Banks examined by putting his hand into it, and found a parcel about five feet long and one thick, wrapped up in matts: he broke a way through several of these matts with his fingers, but at

A772    Beagle Library:     Falkner, Thomas. 1774. A description of Patagonia, and the adjoining parts of South America. Hereford: C.Pugh.   Text

The Beginning of the Christian Doctrine. Q. Chumten Dios m'ley? How many Gods are there? A. Quine m'ten. One only. Q. Cheu m ley ta Dios? Where is GOD? A. Huenu-mapumo, tue-mapumo, In Heaven, in earth, vill-mapumo sume cay, and in all the world wheresoever. Q. Iney cam Dios? Who is GOD? A. Dios Chao, GOD the Father, Dios Votch'm, GOD the Son, Dios Spiritu Santo; cay quila Persona geyum, GOD the Holy Ghost; and being three Persons, quiney Dios m'ten, are one GOD only. Q. Chumgechi, quila

A772    Beagle Library:     Falkner, Thomas. 1774. A description of Patagonia, and the adjoining parts of South America. Hereford: C.Pugh.   Text

have also seen teeth, and particularly some grinders which were three inches in diameter at the base. These bones (as I have been informed) are likewise found on the banks of the Rivers Parana and Paraguay, as likewise in Peru. The Indian Historian, Garcilasso de la Vega Inga, makes mention of these bones in Peru, and tells us that the Indians have a tradition, that giants formerly inhabited those countries, and were destroyed by God for the crime of sodomy. I myself found the shell of an

A775    Beagle Library:     Forster, Johann Reinhold. 1778. Observations made during a voyage round the world on physical geography, natural history, and ethnic philosophy. London: G. Robinson.   Text

RELIGION. imagined a coexisting material hard substance necessary, which they call O-TE-PAPA a rock. These procreated O-HE NA the goddess who created the moon, and presides in the black cloud which appears in this luminary; TE-WHETTOO-MA-TAR I the creator of the stars; OOMARR EO the God and creator of the Seas; and ORRE- RRE * who is the God of the Winds. But the sea is under the direction of 13 Divinities, who all have some peculiar employment, as their name often seems to imply: their names

A775    Beagle Library:     Forster, Johann Reinhold. 1778. Observations made during a voyage round the world on physical geography, natural history, and ethnic philosophy. London: G. Robinson.   Text

RELIGION. longer trust to tradition, the instructor of their childhood, in this great and interesting truth, and soon find that it is impossible to be mistaken in this important argument, as the existence of this Infinite Being is written with so legible characters in every object surrounding them: they soon go back to themselves, and investigate their own mental and sensual faculties, and from thence are gradually led to acknowledge the duties they owe to God, themselves, and all the rational

A775    Beagle Library:     Forster, Johann Reinhold. 1778. Observations made during a voyage round the world on physical geography, natural history, and ethnic philosophy. London: G. Robinson.   Text

endeavoured to pronounce the name of GOD; they were all attention, when according to their desire God was explained to be without a maker, invisible, almighty, and infinitely good; they enquired whether we addressed him in prayer, and whether we had priests and marais, i. e. places of worship, serving at the same time for burying places. All which, proves their inquisitive mind, and that they endeavour to acquire as many ideas as lye in their power. Nor were they destitute of knowledge and a