o The Jefuites Settlement 



The Indians do not drink any Wine, or other hot Li- 

 quors. Herein the good Fathers copy after the Law of 

 Mahomet, who forbad them to his Followers, left being 

 inflamed, they fhould be apt to raife Commotions, give 

 Difturbance to his Defpotick Government, and perhaps 

 fliake off the Yoke he had laid upon their Necks. 



They marry the Indians young, for the fake of Procre- 

 ation ; and the firft Catechifm they teach their Children, 

 is the Fear of God and of the Jefuite, the Contempt of 

 Temporal Goods, and a plain and humble Life. Thefe, 

 it be own'd, are pious Difpofitions ; but then it is no lefs 

 certain, that the good Fathers find their Account in'fuch 

 political Inflruftions. 



The Military Government is as well eftablifli'd there, as 

 the Civil. Every Parifli is obliged to maintain a Number 

 of difciplin'd Troops by Regiments of Horfe and Foot, in 

 proportion to its Strength. Each Regiment confifts of fix 

 Companies of 50 Men, a Colonel, fix Captains, fix Lieu- 

 tenants, and a General Officer who exercifes them every 

 Sunday after Vefpers. Thofe Officers, who are brought 

 up to Arms from Father to Son, are very expert in disci- 

 plining their Men, and in leading them when they march 

 in Detachments. It is upon no other Occafion that the 

 Pariihes have a Communication, but only to form an Army, 

 which the Senior General Officer commands under the Di- 

 rection of a Jefuite, who is Generalilfimo. The Arms 

 of thofe Indians are Fufees, Swords, Bayonets, and Slings, 

 with which they throw Stones to five Pound Weight, and 

 are very dextrous at that Weapon. 



The MiJJions together can aflemble 60000 Men in eight 

 Days time. Their Pretence for maintaining fo great a 

 Number is, becaufe the Portugueze Paulifts make Excur- 

 fions into the Country, to take away their Indians : But this 

 doth not go down with the more knowing Spaniards, who 

 are convinced that the Jefuites keep fo many Troops on 

 foot, for no other End than to hinder all the World with- 

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