other for us. After a very long Latin 

 prayer, we fat down and eat what was 

 put before us, without a fingle word paff- 

 ing at either table. As foon as we had 

 finifhed, there was another long prayer, 

 which, however, did not appear fo te- 

 dious as the firft ; and then we retired 

 to our cell again. In this manner we 

 pafled eight days without ever ftirring 

 out ; all which time one might have 

 imagined oneVfelf out of the world ; 

 for excepting the bell for dinner, a filence 

 reigned throughout the whole, as if the 

 place had been uninhabited. A little be- 

 fore dark, on the eighth evening, we 

 heard a violent knocking at the gate; 

 which was no fooner opened than there 

 entered a young officer booted and fpur- 

 red, who acquainted the fathers that he 

 was fent by the governor to condu<ft us 

 to Chaco. This young man was the 

 governor's fon ; by which means he ob- 

 tained a commiffion nest in authority, 



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