/// Paraguay. 



out Exception from having any Communication with their 

 Mijfton. 



Their Precaution in not teaching the Indians the Spa- 

 niJJj Tongue, and in making it a Cafe of Confcience for 

 them not to convcrfe with the Spaniards when they go to 

 work in the Towns for the King's Service, is declarative 

 enough of the true Defign of the Father Jefuites. The 

 Foreigners who are driven by any Accident into their 

 MiJJions^ as the Frenchmen above-mention'd ; nay, 

 the Spaniards themfelves, who are fometimes obliged to 

 touch upon them, parting to and fro upon the River of Pa- 

 raguay 3 do not ftir without the Walls of the Presbytery i 

 But if the Spaniards do intreat for Leave to take a Walk 

 in the Town, be fure the Jefuite is always at their Side ; 

 and the Indians being forewarn'd, fliut their Doors, and 

 are never feen in the Streets. Whence 'tis plain, the 

 Jefuites have very good Reafons for ufing fo much Cir* 

 cumfpe&ion with regard even to their own Countrymen. 

 They have moreover the Precaution to make Detach- 

 ments of 5 or 6000 Men, by Battalions of 4 or 500, to 

 fcour the Country along the Coaft, from S. Gabriel's Ides 

 to the Mountains of Maldonades, and the River they call 

 Rio de los Patos, to cut off all Communication betwixt 

 thofe Lands and the Europeans or People of the Country, 

 for the fake of the Gold and Silver Mines, which are there 

 in abundance. 



We will here give fome Inftances of the Excurfions of 

 thofe Indians along the Coaft. The Ship Falmouth of 

 S. Malo being caft away near the Ifles of Flores in the Year 

 1706, the Indians plxxndcv'd a Part of her Cargo, which the 

 Governor of Buenos Ayres caus'd them to reftore, and it is 

 actually in the Fort. The Atlas , which perifh'd at the Ca- 

 fliles, in December 1708 > whofe Officers having faved fome 

 of their Goods, and Sails to make Tents, were ftript of all 

 by the Indians^ in their March over Land to the Maldo- 

 nades, in order to come back by Sea, and take up their 



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