1014 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



of ignorance, instilling confidence have received an injury from other 



into evL-ry breast, and presenting tribes on which they dare not seek 



the august spirit of religion beneath revenge. The expedition being 



the semblance of the charity vfhich resolved on, they reconmru nd to the I 



constitutes its essence." Mohan certain (a>ts, to which he is j 



The subjet^i of the foregoing to subje6l hiuii-ell most rigorously, 



paragraph is, however, to be un- For this purpose he reiircs froui all 



' derstood as with reference to those human intercourse, and immures 



natives who .'.re intermingled with, himself in a solitary hut, which he 



or immediately under the dominion usually quits half dead. He replies 



of, their Spanish masters. In the by urging the necessity of entering 



Andes mountains, however, and in on the cdmi)aign. If it be prosper, 



tiie vast plain, which separates ous, they bestow on him a thousand 



them from the Cordillera of ika^il, praises, and the best of the spoil; 



are to be still found the aborigi les but if it terminate unfortunately, 



of the country, who retain their he receives from them as many 



own religion, customs, and man. stripes and execrations. When 



ners, in their primitive barbari- the day arrives on which they are 



fy. The view which is here given to march, they invest themselves 



of this descriptio.- of people, 13 with all the trappings and oflensive 



carried to some length, and is weapons that have been pointed 



throughout worthy of attention, out, carrying, as defensive ones, 



After describing their religious bucklers made with interwoven 



ceremonies, amusements, and pur- reeds, and lined with the skins of 



suits, the mode of carrying on the animals. That they may have a 



'R'arfare, which is perpetually clear sight to descry the enemy, 



alive between some or other of the they rub the eyes Avith red pepper. 



,tribes, is well and animatedly dq- Haying formed in column, the 



scribed as follows. general delivers a short harangue, 



'' 13ut the ruling passion, the ob- exhorting his people to valour and 



je6l (if their rejoicings, of their constancy ; and from time to time 



pleasures, and of their greatest bestows a few taps on the legs of 



felicity, is war. To undertake it. those whom he observes to be slug- 



a general congress of all the nation, gish, or to bo out of their station, 



presided either by the cacique, or This disposition having been made, 



by the individual who is to com- they set out for the enemy. 



niand the warlike hosts, is as-em- " As tjiese piracies are frequent 



bled. Jhe pipes of tobacco arc and unexpected, the towns they 



lighted, the pots of m.isato are inlhabit are as many fortifications 



handed round, and when Bacchus prepared for defence. They are 



bas already taken possession of their formed of several large buildings, 



senses aud faculties, they deliberate with two doors of communication, 



on this important point, and on one at the side of the steep ascent, 



the nation which is to be the ob- and the other next the level ground. 



Jed of their vengeance. The causes The whole represents a half moon, 



arc, either a desire to plunder ; or with the convex part turned towards 



because they deem themselves af- the forest. In this way, while they 



fronted; or, lastly, because they are assailed at one of the doors, and 



while 



