These missions, called San Joaquin del Taruma, San Estanislao, and Belen, were quite apart from all the other missions of the Guaranis, far distant from the Chaco, and removed by an enormous distance from those of the Order in the Moxos and amongst the Chiquitos, forming, as it were, an oasis in the recesses of [...]

, etc.’ `The Bruce’, Booke Fourteene, p.Unicorns he could not have seen in Paraguay, nor yet in Florida, and he does not explain how he became so luckily equipped.And that the Jesuits rendered the Indians happy is certain, though to those men who fudge a theory of mankind r his brother, thinking that everyone is [...]

Like many other captains of those days, the idea of Chaves was to make himself quite independent of authority; so, striking into the interior, he founded the town of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia.This was the pretext for the expedition, but Montoya knew well that the real object was to hunt for slaves.But [...]

These three reductions, founded respectively in 1747 by tribes of wandering Indians,* 1747, and 1760, were, as their dates indicate, the swansong of the Jesuits in Paraguay.It does not seem likely that the Jesuits could have thought it possible to wage a successful war against Spain and Portugal.Some of the men are on foot; others [...]

Whilst this was going on in Misiones, in the remote and recently-converted district of the Itatines camps and s trongholds, in the north of Paraguay, the example set by the Bishop had borne its fruit.Dean Funes (`Historia del Paraguay’, etc.– The system of interior government in the missions was in appearance democratic — that is [...]

– * Cardiel, `Declaracion de la Verdad’, p.He told the Governor to start by turning out the Jesuits the public mind, and he would find the profits of their expulsion just as valuable as mines.When Sunday came he made his general confession,* admitted the two sins the devil had reproached him with, exhorted all to [...]

In this desire he seems to have acted in good faith, and all his life the dream of saintship haunted him.He sent a priest to beg the magistrates to come to the Cathedral and reason with him.The official capital was placed at Candelaria, on the east bank of the Parana.– The ancient enmity of the [...]