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were there dispersed*; to the south, from the confines of Chinchao and Plllao to 

 the opposite bank of the river Huanuco ; to the north, as far as the banks of the 

 river Tulumayo ; and to the west and east, to those of the river Monzon, and the 

 rugged land of Insuro. In a httle time he succeeded in the conversion of the above- 

 mentioned nations, and founded six populous towns f, which he named Tonua, 

 Cuchero, Yaupat, Chusco, Tulumayo, and St. Philip of Tinganeses. In the year 

 1641, the apostolical missionaries, friars Caspar Vera, and Juan Cabezas|, aug- 

 mented this spiritual conquest by the redudtion of the Tipquis and Quidquidcanas 

 tribes, laying the foundations, in the year 1643, of two towns, under the deno- 

 minations of Trinidad of Tipquis, and Magdalena of Quidquidcanas. 



In the year 1644, friars Ignacio de Irarraga, Geronimo Ximenes, and Francisco 

 Suarez, proceeded from Tulumayo, and having travelled on foot over the moun- 

 tainous territory, with incredible risks and fatigue, to the distance of eighty leagues 

 in a northern diredlion, discovered the nation of the Payansos, consisting of up- 

 wards of twenty thousand souls, and inhabiting a valley of four leagues in breadth, 

 and twenty-five in length, situated in the very centre of the branch of the Cordil- 

 lera which runs between the river Huanuco and the Plain of the Sacrament. On 

 receiving the information of so abundant a harvest, several other ecclesiastics took 

 jhe same route, and laboured with so much fervour and success, that in the year 

 1650, they had founded, in the above-mentioned valley, four towns, which were 

 entitled la Trinidad, Concepcion, St. Louis, and St. Francis, and in which up- 

 wards of seven thousand souls resided §. 



In the year 1651, friar Alonzo Caballero|| proceeded from the Payansos to the 

 Callisecas and Setebos, inhabiting the banks of the Ucayali, and, after a short stay, 

 left with them two priests, and three lay brothers, who, by the pradlice of much 

 toleration, established these barbarians in two towns. These establishments were 

 shortly afterwards destroyed by the Sipibos, whose cruelty led them to put all the 

 ecclesiastics to death. This disastrous event did not extinguish the fervent zeal of 

 friar Lorenzo Tineo, and of several other apostolic missionaries, who, having 

 provided themselves with an escort of twenty soldiers, penetrated, in the year 1661, 

 to the above nation of Setebos 5[, and soon succeeded in the conversion of upwards 



* Tena, lib.i. p. 273. f Cordova, lib. i. p. 161. i Cordova, lib.i. p. 162. 



§ Cordova, lib.i. p. 182. || Amich, p. 8. 



•J This nation, for the conversion of which measures are now taking (in 1791), is known by the ap- 

 pellation of Manoitas. 



of 



