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missionaries, into tlie mountainous territory, where he quelled the rebellion, and 

 after having inflicted a severe chastisement on the ringleaders, succeeded in bring- 

 ing about an entire pacification. The next measure to be carried into effeft, was 

 the construftion of a fort or castle, to serve as a shelter and protection to the 

 reverend missionaries and their converts. — It was speedily fabricated by the means 

 of the large and excellent timber produced on the mountains ; was of a square 

 shape; and armed with four pederaroes. An ensign and fourteen soldiers, 

 provided with the necessary stores and ammunition,, were left in it as a gar- 

 rison. 



In the year 1736, the new converts belonging to the tribe of Chichirenes were 

 estabhshed in two towns, entitled Upper Parua and Lower Parua. The town of 

 Catalipango was at the same time rebuilt ; and so successful a progress was made 

 in the conquest of other tribes, with the. help of the spiritual reinforcement of the 

 second mission, which reached Peru from Spain in the year 1737, that several 

 towns were founded*, and those of Santa Cruz preserved until the year 17.51,. 

 when the rebel Atahualpa, at the instigation of the female Indian with whom he 

 was associated, proceeded to Sonomoro from the mountain of salt, with a view to 

 oblige the tribes of Chichirenes and Andes to submit to his domination. The fort 

 happened to be in want of the provisions and arms necessary to ma.intain a pro- 

 trafted siege f and although tlie fidelity of the converts to God and the supreme 

 authority, remained unshaken, they were reduced to the necessity of abandoning 

 their country. They accordingly decided to accompany the missionaries to the 

 valley of Jauxa, to the end that they might not forsake the faith in Jesus Christ. 

 Thus terminated the celebrated missions of Jauxa, which had been acquired by the 

 reverend fathers, by the dint of incalculable fatigues, and by so many lives sacri-. 

 ficed on the altars of the faith.. 



The journey from Andamarca, by Sonomoro, to the junction of the rivers Erte 

 and Perene, was formerly performed in ten days on the backs of mules ; but the road 

 is now entirely obstrudted. On this account, and in consideration that, even if this 

 road should be again opened and rendered practicable, it would still be extremely 

 rugged ; but more especially because, in re-establishing the missions of the moun- 

 tain, of salt, we may penetrate from them to Sonomoro with less difficulty, agree- 



* The missionaries who came from Spain in the years 1731 and 1737, not only preserved the missions 

 which had been re-established by friar Francisco de San Joseph, but likewise added to them the two 

 towns of Parua, and sixteen others, which they founded in the Pajonal. — T<:na, lib. ii. p. i 82. 



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