4l6 



APPENDIX. 



necessary to this enterprise. In the mean time, hs himself set out for Panao, a 

 town distant ten leagues east from the city of Huanuco, to fulfil a commission 

 which the viceroy had entrusted to his zeal and aftivity, namely, to contraft with 

 the inhabitants of that place for the opening of a commodious road, sixteen 

 leagues in length, from Pozuzu to Port del Mayro ; and for the throwing of a 

 bridge across the river Pozuzu; undertakings which were indispensably necessary 

 to the fortifying of the above port. This they engaged to do in the space of three 

 years, for the small expence of four thousand piastres. Father Sobreviela now re- 

 turned to Huanuco, whence he proceeded on the 14th, provided -with, all the 

 necessary Implements for the opening of a passage to Playa-Grande, and accompa- 

 nied by a hundred and fourteen Indians belonging to the frontier. By the indefa- 

 tigable exertions of these Indians, in levelling the precipices, draining the morasses, 

 and cutting through the mountains, a commodious and spacious road was made ; 

 and on the 18th, the company reached the town of Playa-Grande*. 



It being father Sobreviela's Intention to regulate the internal affairs of the con- 

 verted tribes subjefted to his jurlsdiftion, at the same time that he should labour 

 fervently to convert those who were still in a barbarous state, his first care, on his 

 arrival at Playa-Grande, was to visit the temple, to assemble the inhabitants, to 

 examine the progress they had made in their religious exercises, and to exhort 

 them to a stri<Sb observance of the holy writ, and to fidelity to their sovereign. 

 Being sensible of how much importance it was that the vassals subjedl: to one prince 

 should all of them explain themselves in the same language, seeing that thus they 

 would be cemented by a soft bond of fellowship, and, although belonging to seve- 

 ral tribes, would form but one distindl nation, he expatiated with them on the con- 

 veniences and benefits which would result from their acquiring a proficiency in the 

 Castillian tongue. He also pointed out to them the means which would best con- 

 duce to agricultural improvements, as it related to their own natural produdlions, 

 and to the new seeds which he distributed among them. Having fulfilled the 

 duties and obligations of pastor, he now gave them fresh proofs of his paternal 



* In accomplishing this undertaking, and making tlie necessary observations for the dire(5tion of the 

 labourers, the reverend father had to be conveyed from spot to spot in a hammock. This mode of tra- 

 ■velling, which, in the language of the inhabitants of the mountainous territory, is styled cam'mar en huando, 

 is somewhat hazardous. In passing through the thick forests, for instance, the traveller who from ne- 

 cessity adopts this conveyance, incurs the risk of having his head broken by its encounter with a tree, ia 

 the course of the rude shocks to which he is momentarily subjedled ; or, which is still worse, of having 

 his eye perforated by a thorn. 



care. 



