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where the correjidor had been so overbearing and cruel in his treatment 

 of them that they put him to death and burnt the government house. 

 These sent to say they would obey any one else the President might 

 appoint over them. They built a new government house, and were ever 

 after quiet. These were the Canichanas, the same as our faithful canoe- 

 men, who appear to be spirited fellows. 



The province of Mojos extends to the east as far as the Itenez liver, 

 which is the boundary line between it and Brazil. The country is in- 

 habited by wild tribes of savages, upon whom the Jesuits never could 

 make any impression, for they will neither hold friendly intercourse with 

 the Spanish race nor with the friendly Indians. They are warlike in 

 disposition, and meet all overtures on the part of others at the point of 

 their arrows. 



The labors of the Jesuits, here, were much more difficult than on the 

 mountains, where the whole nation seemed as one man to fall under the 

 new order of things after the Spanish conquest. Here all the different 

 tribes had to be approached with distinct care, for as their language and 

 dispositions differed, their forms of worship also in some degree varied 

 from each other. The Jesuits were untiring in their efforts, and made 

 advances to them all. Many of the priests were murdered in their moral 

 struggle with the red man. 



The few Spaniards who followed down the eastern slope of the Andes 

 at the heels of the priests, and settled near the line, have not assisted the 

 workings of the church ; for, wherever they have met the savage, a dif- 

 ficulty between them have caused continuous wars, and now the savage 

 disposition of the red man excites a constant desire for revenge. 



The Spanish schools are drawing the children of these different tribes 

 closer together by teaching them lessons from the same language. The 

 Bolivian government has adopted a wise plan to bind these ignorant 

 people together. The fewer number of languages the more friendly 

 disposed people become towards each other. 



We have seen on the mountains the effect of the Quichua speech 

 taught by the Inca family to the wild tribes that inhabited those regions. 

 There remained but two languages from the equator to the southern 

 boundary of Potosi, and the highest state of civilization. From what 

 we see of the Mojos Indians they are quite as intelligent, and even more 

 so, than the Quichuas or Aymaras, who never manufactured the wool 

 of the alpaca or vicuna so well as the Mojos Indians do the cotton. 

 The stone- work of the Quichuas or Ayamaras does not surpass the 

 wood-work of these. The stone chisel in the hand of the Cuzco or 

 Tiahuanco Indian was skilfully used ; but we see at a glance in how 



