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interior of the mountains of Caxamarquilla, was able to draw over all the Indians 

 who were there dispersed, to religion, and to the state, by engaging them in a 

 mutual and pacific commerce, which enabled them to comprehend the sandlity of 

 the former, and to appreciate the advantages of an union with the latter; 

 insomuch, that they have constantly remained faithful and attached, and have not 

 suffered the smallest molestation, amid the struggles and contentions of the 

 neighbouring tribes, on the mountain of salt, in the great Pajonal, &c. 



We forbear to inquire into the causes of a phenomenon so different from those 

 that have appeared to govern the world, and dispose of the fate of its inha- 

 bitants. The genius that presides over these causes, enlightened by the Divinity, 

 is like a fire which, issuing from the pole, runs with a celerity that the sight 

 cannot overtake, to station itself in the centre of the sphere ; and illumines in 

 an instant the atoms even which were concealed by the obscure veil of night. 

 We, on the other hand, resemble, in our researches, the faint crepuscules that 

 divide the empires of light and darkness : by the help of them we can scarcely 

 record the greater bodies ; and are compelled to recur to the help of the touch, 

 not to be deceived. We will return to our history. 



Father Girbal spent four days among the Panos dwelling at the side of the 

 above-mentioned lake; and on the fifth, took the necessary measures to proceed in 

 quest of those who inhabit the banks of the river Sarayacu. He descended the Ucay- 

 ali by the canal through which he had passed on his entrance, the Indian boatmen 

 having to overcome its current by their oars ; and on the 6th of October, at four 

 in the afternoon, disembogued by the Sarayacu, within the distance of a league 

 from the port, which he shortly after reached. The inhabitants, through some 

 mistake, not having been made acquainted with his intended visit, instantly took 

 up arms ; but as soon as they had ascertained that it was a pacific assembl?.ge, 

 commanded by a friar of the Order of St. Francis, they exchanged their imple- 

 ments of war for the green boughs of peace, and, surrounding our traveller with 

 a thousand tokens of benevolence and affedbion, condufted him to the house of 

 the chief. This chief was a female, distinguished from the rest, as well by her 

 demeanour, as by the modest propriety of her dress, which resembled that of a nun. 

 She proved to be the identical Anna Rosa of whom mention was made in the history 

 of the missions of Caxamarquilla*, and who, having been brought to Lima in her 

 infancy, by the reverend fathers, had spent several months in the monastery of Santa 



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