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his route, he fell In with the venenible fathers, Francisco Carrion, and Antonia 

 Zepeda, who were descending from Ouimiri to assist father Izquierdo in his new 

 settlement ; and deprived them of life with the utmost cruelty. Triumphant, and 

 rejoicing at the progress he had made in his wicked purpose, he reached Ouimiri,, 

 where, having communicated to the Indians the butcheries he had just executed, 

 and his determination to kill all the fathers, they attacked and fell on him and his 

 partisans with such an abundance of clubs, stones, and billets of wood, that the 

 assassins were quickly dispatched. A sister of this very Mangore, taking up a 

 large stone, direfted it with so true an aim, and with so much force, against the 

 head of her brother, that she laid him senseless on the ground. 



In consequence of the above melancholy events, the conversion of Santa Cruz 

 remained for some time without protection, until the fervour of father Biedma led 

 him to return thither, with a few companions, in the year 1681. He had pre- 

 viously made such improvements in the road between Andamarca and Sonomoro, 

 as to render it passable by mules. In a little time he re-established the town of 

 Santa Cruz *', and founded another town with the name of San Buenaventura of 

 Savini. In the year 1684, he opened a road from Sonomoro to the junftion of 

 the rivers Ene and Perene; and being anxious to bring into the bosom of the church, 

 the ipany nations dwelling on the banks of the river Paro, embarked in the year 

 1686f, and descended to the vicinity of the confluence of the river Pachiteawith 

 the Ucayali, where he was well received by the numerous nation of the Conivos., 

 Having there founded a chapel and town, he returned, keeping on his route an 

 exa£t diary, and recording the names of all the nations residing on the banks 

 of upwards of forty rivers, all of wrhich pay the tribute of their copious stores of 

 water to the Gran-Paro. On the banks of the river Camarinigua, he established 

 another town of Conivos J, under the denomination of San Joseph ; and left there, 

 in quality of converter, father Antonio Vital. This monk remained in the above 

 town, until the sad tidings were brought to him, that the Piros had put to death 

 father Biedma and his companions. Finding himself, therefore, alone, and with- 

 out hope or prospeft of succour, he descended in a canoe, with six Indians, by the 

 Ucayali, as far as the river of the Amazons, by which he ascended, and pene- 

 trated into the interior by the Huallaga, he having been, at that time, the first and 

 only individual, his Indian companions excepted, who had completed the course of 

 the navigation of these rivers ; since he penetrated from Jauxa, by Andamarca, to 



* Amich, p. 41. 



f Tena, lib. i. p 76, 



I Tena, lib. i. p. 101. 



the 



