460 The National Geographic Magazine 



San Ignacio. The Front Portico 



genius of Loyola's followers, who were 

 able to teach the arts of civilization to the 

 savage so success full}- that after more 

 than three hundred years the record of 

 their work remains to attest its strength 

 and beauty. There still exist the evi- 

 dences of good architecture, and credit- 

 able sculpture ; and though, as is well 

 known, the Jesuit edifices all over the 

 country are remarkable for a lack of 

 technical accuracy in their architectural 

 design, yet they stand a great monument 

 to the persistent energy of the most im- 

 portant civilizing agency in South 

 America for two centuries after the dis- 

 covery, and they represent an influence 

 that extended from the Amazon to Cape 

 Horn, of which proofs are to be found 

 among the remotest tribes of the interior 

 of the continent, who still preserve in the 

 traditions of their people many of the 

 Christian teachings brought to them by 

 the Jesuits. 



Photo from A. H. Kirkland 



Gypsy Moth Caterpillars Beneath Burlap 



Maiden, Mass., July 12, 1905 



