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(4) The Convejitual Redemptions. There were, in my opinionj 

 many defefts in the eftablifhments of the Jefuits in Paraguay. As 

 thefe monaftic orders do not marry, that they had not within them- 

 fe Ives, the independent principle ofexiftence; that they always 

 recruited the fraternity with Europeans, and, that they formed, 

 even in their Redemptions, one Nation within another Nation ; 

 hence it came to pafs, that the deftru6lion of their Order in Eu- 

 rope, involved in it that of their eftablifliments in America. Be- 

 fides, the conventual regularity, and the multiplied ceremonies 

 which they had introduced into their political adminiftration, 

 could fuit only an infant People, who inuft be inceflantly kept up 

 by the leading-ftring, and led by the eyes. They are not the lefs, 

 on that account, deferving of immortal honour, for having col- 

 Ie£led, and fubjefted to humane Laws, a multitude of barbarians, 

 and for having inftrucled them in the Arts ufeful to human life, 

 by preferving them from the corruption of civilized Nations. 



(5) Offer jip human facr'ifice s . They likewife eat dogs, thofe 

 natural friends of Man. I have remarked, that every People 

 among whom this is praftifed, were not difpofed to fpare human 

 flefli when occafion prompted : to eat the flefli of dogs is a flep 

 toward anthropophagy. 



(6) Toutous, The name of a clafs of men of the commonalty 

 in the Ifland of Tai'ty, and in the other ifland's of that Archi- 

 pelago. They are not permitted to eat Ywines-flefti, which is 

 there of an excellent quality, and exceedingly common. It is re- 

 ferved for the E-Arrés, who are the chiefs. The Toutous bring 

 up the fvvine, and the E-Arrés feed upon them. Confult Cap- 

 tain Cook's Voyages. 



(7) One (f thofe touching comparifons. Thofe comparifons arc 

 beauties which feem appropriate to poetry. But I think paint- 

 ing might adopt them to advantage, and derive powerful eifeéls 

 from them. For example, when a painter is reprefenting on the 

 fore-ground of a battle-piece, a young man of an interefting cha- 

 racter, 



