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Marca, who penetrated thither from San Tadeo de los Antes, where the moun- 

 tains allow a rugged entrance; and who, in the year 1733, had succeeded in 

 founding two towns, which he named Tampianiqui and Aporoquiaqui. The 

 abundance of the harvest discovered in the Pajonal, drew thither several celebrated 

 labourers, namely, the venerable fathers, friar Manuel Bajo, friar Alonzo, be- 

 longing to the Order of the Holy Ghost, friar Cristoval Pacheco, and friar Fer- 

 nando, belonging to the Order of Jesus. Such was the efFedt of their zeal, that 

 in the year 1735, they had augmented the conversion to five numerous towns, 

 the Indians residing in which were docile, attentive to the instru61:ions they received, 

 and carefully enrolled. Friars Pedro Dominguez, Francisco Gazo, and several 

 others, hastened to their succour, and wrought with so much earnestness and acti- 

 vity, that in the year 1739, there were not less than ten towns of converts, con- 

 taining upwards of twenty thousand Indians, without reckoning the very conside- 

 rable numbers of adults and infants who had been swept off in the course of the 

 preceding years, by sickness and other casualties, after having submitted to the 

 baptismal ceremony, and embraced Christianity. 



Such was the very flattering and successful progress made in these conversions, 

 and in those of the mountain of salt, until at length, in the year 1742, a monster 

 whom hell had engendered, swayed by ambition and pride, brought about their entire 

 ruin, with the destruftion of souls, lives, and properties, and in contempt of God 

 and of the sovereign authority. This monster appeared in the person of the apos- 

 tate Juan Santos, the pretended Ynca Atahualpa, whose open and declared rebel- 

 lion was first manifested in the town of the great Pajonal, named Quisopango, 

 whither he had been followed by a small number of conspirators. The flame 

 might have been easily stifled on its breaking out, if the information given in the. 

 ^ first instance by the converters had not been contemned. It was owing to this 

 negleft that the rebel found time to reinforce himself, by bringing over new con- 

 verts, and to fortify himself in the posts which enabled him to baffle the efi'orts of 

 the troops, who had penetrated into the mountainous territory in various directions, 

 with the intent of making him prisoner. The missionaries vented loud complaints 

 when they perceived the gradual destruction of these very flourishing missions, 

 which they had acquired and cultivated at the expence of their blood/ sweat, and 

 solicitude. The wish to maintain their converts in the christian faith, did not 

 allow them to abandon these establishments ; and they therefore came to the reso- 

 lution to remain at their posts at every risk, and until the last extremity. This 

 resolve was fatal to the venerable fathers, friars Domingo Garcia, and Joseph Ca- 



banes, 



