The Jefuites Settlement 



Silver. The Tabernacle is of Gold. The Pyx* wherein 

 the Holy Sacrament is kept, is made of Gold, and fet 

 round with Emeralds and other precious Stones. The 

 Foot and Sides of the Altar are adorn'd with Cloth of 

 Gold laced. In fhort, the Candlefticks, and other Veffels 

 of Gold and Silver, with which the Altar is fet off at fuch 

 times as the Service is" perform' d with a great number of 

 Wax-Candles, make a Shew almoft beyond all Imagina- 

 tion. There are two other Altars on the Right and Left, 

 adorn'd and enrich' d in proportion to the great one ; and 

 in the Body of the Church, toward the Baluftrade, is a 

 Silver Candleftick of 30 Branches enrichM with Gold, 

 with a great Silver Chain which reaches quite to the Roof. 

 By this Defcription one may form fome Judgment of the 

 Riches of that Million, if all the 42 Parifhes are upon the 

 fame foot, as it is reafonable to believe. 



The Presbytery, or Father's Houfe, confifts of feveral 

 fpacious Halls adorn'd with a great many Pictures and 

 Images, in which the Indians wait till the Father comes 

 out 3f his Apartment to give Audience. There are more- 

 over large Warehoufes, to which the Indians bring all the 

 Fruit of their Labour. The reft of the Houfe contains 

 Walks, Gardens, and divers Lodings for the Domeflick 

 Indians ; the whole, with the Church, making a wall'd In- 

 clofurc of about 6000 Perches fquare. 



The 42 Jefuites, who have each their Parijh to govern, 

 are independent one of another, and are anfwerable to 

 Hone but the Principal of the Convent of Cordoua in the 

 Province ofTtiCuwan, who makes a Progrefs once a Year 

 to vifit the MiJJions^ guarded by a great Number of /»- 

 dians. Upon his Arrival, the Indians fhew all poffible 

 Demonftrations of Joy and Refpeft. The Principal of 

 them do not approach him without Trembling, and Hang- 

 ing down the Head,- and the Common fort arc upon their 

 Knees, with their Hands crofs'd, as he paffes along. 

 During his Stay he makes the Jefuite of every Parifli give f 

 him an Account of all that liath been brought into the 



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