The Jefukes Settlement 



Crowns a Year,- and the Jefukes have the beft Part of it; 

 which, with the other Commodities they vend to equal 

 Advantage, and with the Gold-Duft, which the Indians go 

 and gather up in the Waflies where the Waters have been, 

 after their Rivers are funk below their Banks again, brings 

 in to the Jcfuites the Revenue of a Sovereign. For the form- 

 ing a truer Idea of this matter, be it fuppofed, that each 

 Family of Indians does not produce to the Jefukes above 

 50 Livres a Year, all Expcnces borne ; why, even at this 

 rate the general Produce of 300000 Families will appear 

 to amount to 5 Millions of Crowns ; but this Hint is fuf- 

 ficient to convince any one, that they get a great deal more. 

 However, if you'll believe thofe good Fathers, their Mif- 

 fion cofts them a great deal of Pains, and brings them but 

 little Profit : But this mud be taken in the Senfe they ge- 

 nerally fpeak, the Interpretation whereof is Nunquam 

 fat is. 



The Gold and Silver, coinM and uncoin'd, which the 

 Jefuites fend by every Opportunity into Euro.jjgi the Mag- 

 nificence of their Churches, where mafly Gold and Silver 

 are glittering on every fide; and their confiderable Com- 

 merce, which is known to all the Spaniards^ oblige Men 

 to form a different Judgment. 



It may not be amifs to give here a Defcription of the 

 Church and Apartment of the Father of one of the Pariflies, 

 from the Mouths of two Frenchmen belonging to the Ship 

 of Monfieur de laSolliette d'Efcafeau of Nantes. 



That Ship being in the Port of Maldonades^ weigh'd 

 Anchor, and fct Sail, when the faid two Frenchmen^ one 

 a Captain of Arms on board, and the other a Sergeant, 

 happen'd to be on fhoar, and at fo great a Diftance, that 

 they came too late for the Boat, which was gone off. 

 Not knowing what to do in this cafe, all the Coaft being 

 defart, they refolv'd to advance into the Country, tho' 

 they had no other Suftenance than what their Fufees 

 brought them. Having march'd three Days, they met 

 Indians with Beads about their Necks, who received them 



very 



