( 375 ) 



k is a piece of refined and ufeful policy 

 in the "Jefuit Miffionaries of Paraguay, 

 to exclude their New Converts from all 

 intercourfe with Foreigners, not only 

 to anfwer the purpofes of that politic 

 Society, but alfo to preferve them in a 

 happy ignorance of our vices, which 

 alone could fecure them from being 

 corrupted by their example. " Si velis 

 *' vitiis exui, longe a vitiorum exemplis 

 " recedendum eft. .... Nullo ad au- 

 <c res noftras vox impune perferatur 

 The caufe of thefe efFedts is obvious % 

 we contaminate them with our Vices, 

 but withold the Antidotes of Religion, 

 Morality, and Literature, 



The Dutch,, in thefe Colonies, en- 

 courage intermarriages with the Indian 

 women ; and feveral of the moft con- 

 fiderable families, in rank and fortune, 

 in EJfequebo, derive their origin from 



* Sen. Epijl. xxviii. & civ. 



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