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where they treated him with such veneration, that in' 

 liis progress through the towns they would not suffer 

 him to walk, hut carried him on their shoulders; an 

 honour wiiich the caciques reserved to themselves 

 alone. The effects of his preaching were answerable 

 to these marks ot" ardour and esteem, so that in a short 

 time the whole nation was brought to a serious pro- 

 fession of Christianity, deploring their former igno- 

 rance and brutality, and forming themselves into a 

 political community, under laws calculated for the 

 happirness of society. And their example so intluenced 

 several other adjacent nations, that the Yurimaguas, 

 Asuares, Banomas, and others, unanimously and vo- 

 luntarily ca,me and addressed themselves to Father 

 Fritz, desiring him to instruct them how to live in 

 the same order and rei>'ularitv as the (3ma"-uas. Thus 

 whole nations, on embracing Christianity, submitted 

 to the sovereignty of the Spanish monarchs : and all 

 the countries from the Napoto a considerable distance 

 below the Negro, were leduced without the least 

 force througliout the whole extent of the government 

 of JMaynas : and such, at the end of the last ccntuiy, 

 was the number of the nations thus converted, that 

 Father Fritz, thougli without indulgi<ig himself inany 

 respite, was not able to visit every single town and 

 village M'ithin the compass of a }ear, exclusi\ely of 

 the nations under the care of otiicr missionaries, as 

 those of the May nas, Xebaros, Cocamas^ Panos, Cha- 

 micuros, Agúanos, Muniches, ()tanai)es,'R<)amaynas, 

 Gaes, and many more. The other missions were in 

 the same flourishing condition. 



The city of San Francisco de Borja, which we. have 

 already mentioned as the capital of Maynas, stands in 

 4 deg. 28 min. S. lat. and 1 ckg. 54- min. E. of the 

 meridian of Quito: but of its largeness and appear- 

 ance we can only add, that it resembles the cities of 

 the government of Jacn: and its inhabitants, though 

 consisting of Mestizos and indians, and the place is 



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