THE MOJOS INDIANS. 
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rivers full of rapids and cataracts — and deprived, moreover, of their 
leaders and teachers, they live in a state of disheartening depression 
and bondage little removed from absolute slavery. 
When their ancestors first lent a -willing ear to the s-weet -words 
of the wary priests, and, finding themselves settled in places little 
suited to their former modes of life, gradually gave up all their old 
customs, they bent before a far superior mental power, which soon 
discovered the patriarchal severity of sway to be the form of govern- 
ment best suited as well to the selfish piirposes of the rulers as to 
the childish intellect of the Indians. 
If they felt their subjection, and if their proud chiefs had to boAV 
b(‘fore the Eathers, they were recompensed by the protection extended 
to them by the latter; which, especially during the slave-robbing 
expeditions of the Paiilistas, was of great serviee to them. The 
ruinous feuds between the different tribes ceased ; and materially they 
were better off than before in many respects, the planting of maize and 
mandioca on a larger scale, and the breeding of the smaller domestic 
animals, ensuring a more regular and equal coiu’se of life than that 
supplied by hunting and fishing. 
The early stages of the work of civilisation must have been attended 
Avith great difficulties ; and it is much to be regretted, in the interest 
of both history and psychology, that the scanty repiorts we have on 
them are too partial to be implicitly relied upon, coming as they do 
from the Jesuits themselves, and from their adversaries, Avho triumphed 
after the suppression of the Order. Our chief authority, out of the 
ranks of the latter, is Don Eeliz de Azara, a Spanish astronomer and 
sm-veyor; who, towards the end of the last and in the beginning of 
the present century, visited these countries, and communicated with 
several of the Indians, who Avell remembered the government of the 
Eathers and their expulsion in 1707. 
particle of tlie Holy Cross carefully secured -n itliin a crystal case, with the following 
words referring to the foundation engraved on a silver plate at its base : — 
“ S. Lignum Crueis, del quo so udora en el Colegio do 8. Pablo de Lima, le did 
el Padre Provuicial, Antouio Vasqtiez, al Padre Juan del Campo, quien como Hector do 
8. Pablo lo dio a otro Padre grave y este nl P. N. do 0., <iue con bene placito de los 
8uperiores lo applied a la Ecducciou de los Mqjos de la Exaltaoion de la Cruz quo 
lunda el Padre Ant. Garriga anno 1701.” 
The nine other Missions, Loreto, 8. Pedro. 8. Eamon, 8. Maria Magdalena, NT. 8. 
de la Concepcion. N. 8. del Carmen. 8. Joaqiiim, 8. Ana, and Eeyes, were likewise 
founded in the beginning of the eighteenth centiuy. 
