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of these unfortunate converts. The monks were no sooner divested of this trust, 

 than the Indians, finding themselves deprived of their spiritual teachers and guides, 

 returned to the mountains, and to paganism- In the course of the following years 

 infinite pains were taken to re-establish the above-mentioned conversions ; but 

 without being attended by any other result beside that of the sacrifice of friars 

 Juan Valera, Francisco Huerta, and Juan Zavala, the former of whom was 

 cruelly massacred by the barbarians, in the year 1694*, at Huancabamba, and the 

 latter, on the banks of the Quimiri, about the same time. 



These disastrous events, and the refleflion that so many monks had from time 

 to time perished by the hands of the infidels, made so strong an impression on 

 those belonging to the provincial Order of the Twelve Apostles, that not one could 

 be found with a sufiicient resolution to undertake a new conquest, until the Divine 

 Providence, in its unerring wisdom, direfted the steps of the venerable founder of 

 Ocopa, friar Francisco de San Joseph, in the year 1709, towards Tarma. Inspired 

 by a fervent zeal for the salvation of the infidels, he solicited and encouraged the 

 apostolical missionaries, friars Fernando de St. Joseph, Mateo Brabo, Honorio 

 Matos, and Cristoval de San Joseph, to engage with him in this enterprise ; and 

 after he had executed a particular mission in the province of Tarma, penetrated 

 with them, and two lay brothers, who joined the expedition, into the mountainous 

 territoryf. They there laboiu-ed with so much zeal and aftivity, that in the year 

 1730, nearly the whole of the nations dwelling on the banks of the river Perene 

 -were converted, and coUefted in six populous towns, under the denominations of 

 Ouimiri, Nixandaris, Cerro de la Sal, Eneno, Pichana, and San Tadeo de los 

 AutesJ- 



In the above year, 1730, was discovered the great Pajonal, so called on account 

 of the high grasses with which the mountains that surround it are thickly covered §. 

 This Pajonal constitutes a considerable portion of the mountainous territory which 

 extends from the rivers Ene and Perene, more than forty leagues to the north, 

 and thirty from west to east. On the north-west side it limits the Plain of the 

 Sacrament, from which it is divided by the river Pachitea ; and on the west it 

 stretches to the very lofty mountains which contribute their copious streams to the 

 great Paro. The spiritual conquest of the infidels inhabiting the Andes moun- 

 tains of the Pajonal, was first undertaken by the venerable father, friar Juan de la 



* Amich, p. 72. 

 i Amich, p. 80. 



f Amich, p. 74. 



§ Amich, p. 94, et sequentes. 



Marca, 



