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Book VIL 



C H A P. XV. 



Account of Paraguay Buenos Ayres ; 

 the two lajl Governments of the Audience of 

 Charcas. 



IV. Biihopric of the Audience of Charcas. 

 Paraguay. 



^T^HE government of Paraguay lies S. of Santa 

 A Cruz de la Sierra, and E. of Tucuman. South- 

 ward it joins to that of Buenos Ayres \ and is ternii- 

 -natcd eaftward by the captainfhip of St. Vicente in 

 Brazil, whole capital is the city of St. Pablo. Thcfe 

 countries were firft difcovered by Sebaftian Gaboro, 

 who, coming to the river of Plata in the year 1526, 

 faii'd up the river Palana in fome fmall barks, and 

 thence entered that of Paraguay. He was fucceedcd 

 in 1536 by Juan de Ayolas, to whom Don Pedro 

 - de Mendoza, the firft governor of Buenos Ayres, 

 liad given a commifTion, together with a body of 

 troops, military (lores and other neceiTaries \ and 

 aftcrv/ards, by his orders, Juan de Salinas, founded 

 the city of Nueilra Scnora de la AfTumption, the 

 capital of the prov ince ; but the difcovery of the whole, 

 and confequently the conqueft of people who inhabited 

 it, being Hill iniperfccl, it was profecuted by Alvar 

 Nunez, furnamed Cabeza cie Baca, or Cow head, 

 whofe eminent fervices, on the Death of Don Pedro 

 de Mendozo, procured him the government of Bue- 

 nos Ayres., 



The only fettlement in* the whole extent of this 

 government, are the city of Aiilimption, Villa P*.ica, 

 and fome other towns, whofe inhabitants are a mix- 

 ture of Spaniards, Meftizos, and fome ^Indians, but the 



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