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thod. If, therefore, in a few cafes, I differ two or three years 
from the Jefuits in their firft account of this country, I do 
not in any fhape believe the fault to be mine, becaufe there 
are, at all thefe periods, errors in point of fact, both in Alva- 
rez and Tellez, much more material and unaccountable than 
the miftake of a few years; and thefe errors have been adop- 
ted with great confidence in the Hifpania Iluftrata, and fome 
of the beft books of Portuguefe hiftory which have made 
mention of this country. 
CHAP, 
