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under the shadow of luxuriant oaks. The 

 voyage was in fact, even at this time of year, a 

 most agreeable excursion. 



When we had proceeded eighteen miles from 

 our night camp, and twenty-three from the 

 river s mouth, we reached the confluence of the 

 two streams. One flows from the east, and the 

 other from the north. The Spaniards call the 

 first Pescadores ; farther inland it receives two 

 other rivers, which, according to our pilot, are 

 equally broad and deep as itself: the mis 

 sionaries have given them the names of St. 

 Joachim, and Jesus Maria. Some way up these 

 rivers, whose banks are said to have been 

 uncommonly fertile and thickly peopled, the 

 pious fathers have journeyed to convert the 

 Indians and procure labourers for the missions. 

 Now that a part of the natives have yielded to 

 conversion, and others have fled farther into 

 the interior to escape it, no human being is to 

 be found in the tract of land which we were 

 surveying; no trace remains of a numerous 

 race called Korekines, by whom it was once in 

 habited. Since the river Pescadores was already 

 known, I chose the other, which flows from the 



