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into the mountainous territory, on the eastern side, until he came to the river Tu^lani, 

 on the banks of which he converted the nation of the Omages*, and founded the town 

 of Pozuzu, which siill exists, together with that of Tihnga, afterwards annexed 

 to the preceding one. For the rehef of the missionaries, on their entering or 

 leaving the mountainous territory, and for the rearing of cattle destined for their 

 support, he had an hospital built on a site named Chaglla. With the same view, 

 another was erefted at a spot named Muna. Each of them was provided with a 

 church ; and they are both at this time in the centre of towns inhabited by converted 

 Indians. 



From the year 1726 to that of 1755, eight entrances were made from Pozuzu to 

 the haven of the river Mayro, and the Plain of the Sacramentf , without any other 

 beneficial result beside that of having led to the discovery of the nation of Cara- 

 pachos, and of having enabled the missionaries to colleft a few fugitive Indians be- 

 longing to the tribe of Omages. In the year 1760, the fathers of Ocopa pene- 

 trated the mountainous territory, with immense difficulties and fatigues, from the 

 conversions of Caxamarquilla to the banks of the Ucayali, where they accom- 

 plished the conversion of the Setebos, or Manoitas. In the year 1766, they had 

 extended their spiritual conquest to the Sipibos and Conivos, who were settled in 

 five towns, having the denominations of San Francisco of Manoa, Santo Domingo 

 ofPisqui, Santa Barbara of Achani, Santa Cruz of Aguaitia, and San Miguel of 

 the Conivos. With the intention of affijrding succour to these conversions, with 

 less inconvenience and danger, by the route of Mayro and the river Pachitea, 

 three expeditions from Pozuzu to the Plain of the Sacrament, were undertaken in 

 the years 1763, 1765, and 1767 J. The first of these terminated fatally, father 

 Francisco Francis having been put to death by the Casivos, after he had navigated 

 by the Pachitea to nine degrees of latitude. The second reached the same site, but 

 without reaping any other advantage beside that of having explored and noted the 

 navigation of the Pachitea, from the haven of Mayro, situated in the latitude of 

 nine degrees fifty-seven minutes, to the unfortunate port where father Francis was 

 killed. The third went beyond the confluence of the Pachitea and Ucayali, but 

 did not reach Manoa, in consequence of the melancholy intelligence communicated 

 by the unconverted Indians, that the Sipibos, and other nations, had revolted, and 

 murdered the whole of the missionaries, consisting of six priests and nine lay 

 brothers. From the documents colledled on these expeditions, and from those ob- 



* Amich, p. 75. 



f Amich, p. 86. 



^ Amich, p. 149, 153, and 160. 



tained 



