the South* Sea. 20 3 



That Way I enter'd on the 2d of October 1713 , in or- ^ rr}v ^ u 

 der to ftay at Lima till a Ship faiPd for France. Two Days Lima. 4 

 after my Arrival there, they celebrated the Feaft ofS. Fran- 

 cis of Ajjifium, which is none of the leaft in the Year; for 

 the Spaniards being poffefs'd and infatuated by the Friers, 

 efpecially the Francifcans and the Dominicans, look upon 

 the Founders of thofe two Orders as the greateft Saints in 

 Heaven. The Veneration they pay them extends even to 

 the Habits of their Orders, much beyond other Monaftical 

 Habits. 



They chiefly believe they gain great Indulgences by 

 killing that of S. Francis : The Francifcans to keep up that 

 Notion, fend fome of their Friers into the moft frequent- 

 ed Churches, to give their Sleeve to kifs to thofe who are 

 hearing Mafs : Even the quefting Brothers prefume to in- 

 terrupt People at their Prayers to have that Honour done 

 them. But in order to heighten the general Refped paid to 

 their Order, and render its Grandeur the more obfervable 

 to the Publick, they on the Feftival of their Founder make 

 magnificent Fire-works and Proceffions, and embellifli their 

 Cloifters within and without with the richeft Things they 

 can come at. Thus they caft Duft into the Eyes of the 

 Carnal People, who are taken with fine Appearances, 

 and in fome Meafure eafe them of the truly Religious Life. 



The Feftival began at the Evenfong of the Eve, by. a 

 Proceffion of the Dominicans, in which ten Men carry'd the 

 Figure of S . Dominick, going to vifit his Friend S. Francis. 

 He was clad in rich Gold Stuffs, and glittering with fmall 

 J$tars of Silver, ftrew'd upon him, that he might be feen at 

 a Diftance. 



S. Francis being informed of the Honour his Fiknd Procefm, 

 was coming to do him, came to meet him as far as the 

 Square, which is about half Way : Before the Palace Gate 

 they complimented one another, by means of the Organs 

 o( their Children, for tho' they made Geftures, they had 

 not the Advantage of fpeaking. The latter being more 

 Modeft than the former, came in his Franciscan Frier's 



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