548 



Whites, who inhabit the same village, and who 

 are almost all refugees from Socorro* At the 

 Oroonoko, in the time of the Jesuits, the three 

 villages of Pararuma, Castillo, or Marumarutu, 

 and Carichana, were united into one, that of 

 Carichana, which thence became a very consi- 

 derable mission. In 1759, when the Fortalza 

 de San Francisco Xavier and it's three batteries 

 still existed, Father Caulin^ reckoned four hun- 

 dred Salivas in the mission of Carichana. In 

 1800 I found scarcely a hundred and fifty. 

 There remains of this village only a few huts 

 built with clay, and placed symmetrically 

 around an immense cross. 



We found among these Saliva Indians a white 

 woman, the sister of a Jesuit of New Grenada. 

 It is difficult to define the satisfaction that is felt, 

 when, in the midst of nations of whose language 

 you are ignorant, you meet with a being with 

 whom you can converse without an interpreter. 



* The town of Socorro, South of the Rio Sogamozo, and 

 North-North-East of Santa Fe de Bogota, was the centre of 

 the insurrection, that broke out in the kingdom of New Gre- 

 nada, in 1781, under the Arch bishop- Viceroy Gongore, on 

 account of the vexations which the people suffered from the 

 introduction of the monopoly of tobacco. Many industrious 

 inhabitants of Socorro emigrated at that time into the Llanos 

 of Meta, to escape the persecutions, which followed the gene- 

 ral amnesty granted by the court of Madrid. These emigrants 

 are called in the missions, Socorrenos refugiados. 



f Hist, corograjica, p. 71. 



