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APPENDIX. 



and humanity inspire. Rewards like these are solely due to the adventurous pro- 

 pagators of Christianity. Their memory, were it even possible to efFace it from the 

 fragile altars ere«Sl:ed by our veneration, would find a fixed asylum in the breast of 

 the sage, who, in his silent meditations, does justice to the ferocious warrior, to the 

 pacificator, and to the virtuous citizen. 



As, however, the enterprises of the latter are not accompanied with the pomp 

 and splendour, the seduftive charms of which lead man to soar to the pitch of the 

 works of the great world, they would not have been executed, had they not been 

 diftatcd and cherished by a philosophy which is purely celestial. By its means 

 alone can such a religion of charity have been established, and so many weak mor- 

 tals inspired with a zeal which has propelled them to travel over the four quarters 

 of the globe, with the sole view of being useful to their fellow creatures. 



America, amid the calamities of which it has been the theatre, has oftentimes felt 

 the benign influence of the evangelical spirit. By the consolatory voice of its 

 apostles, the savages have been coUedted together, and formed into intelligent and 

 industrious tribes. Gentle persuasives, tender offices, example, and the repeated 

 sacrifice of life, without any other motive than that of rendering them service, have 

 had a more powerful effecTt on them than would have been produced by harsh and 

 coercive measures. A relation of all the missions to the Andes of Peru would fully 

 establish this truth, and would give rise to many deep and serious refleftions. On 

 the present occasion, we shall confine ourselves to the history of those of Caxamar' 

 quilla, in which are comprehended the discovery and loss of those of Manoa, and 

 of those directed towards the banks of the famous Ucayali. The measures adopted 

 by the court of Spain for the re-establishment of the latter*; the peregrinations, by the 

 river Huallaga, which have been recently concluded by father Manuel Sobreviela, 

 superior of the college of Ocopa ; and those which, by his order, have been like- 

 wise undertaken with the same view, by the river Ucayali, by Father Narciso Gir- 

 bal, demand an elucidation which will be best conveyed by a detailed account of 

 the aforesaid missions. 



The province of Caxamarquilla, or Patas, belongs to the Intendency of Trux- 

 illo. It runs, north and south, from seven to eight degrees thirty minutes south 

 latitude. It is bounded to the north and north-east by the province of Chaca- 

 poyas ; to the north-west by the junftion of the river Maranon with that of Caxa- 



* In the year 1 787, five royal ordonnances, and as many decrees, were published, relatively to the re- 

 fstablishment and preservation of the Manoa missions. For this purpose, a fortified town was planned at 

 the confluence of the rivers Mayro and Pozuzo. 



marquilla ; 



