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Jesuits; Avlio, in cousequouce of tlicse repeated attaelcs, retired farther 
to tlie South, to the shores of the Uruguay and the Parana, taking 
tieir disciples with them. After numerous conflicts witli the advancing 
tide of culture, the t!oroados were outlaAvcd by the Portuguese Govem- 
inent; and only within the last twenty-five years have some of their 
hordes deigned to live with the hated AAdiitc man on any other footing 
than that of war, and to take up their abode in the Aldeamentos, 
or Indian settlements administered by the Government. In some of 
these, — such as San Ignacio, and Nossa Senhora do Pirapo, built on 
the sites of the Missions destroyed by the Paulistas, in 1680 ; and 
Sao Pedro d’ Alcantara on the Tibagy, — and in the heart of the endless 
region of primeval forest lying between the Tietd and the Iguassii, I 
was enabled to institute comparisons betAveen the several tribes there 
living beside one another, in peace though not in amity; and there 
Avere those likenesses taken. 
With the aid of the still Ausible eloATitions of the surface, attesting 
the remains of the ruined Pisd Avails — Avhich, like the ruins of Villa 
Pica on the Ivahy, Averc partly enAmloped Avith close vegetation — Ave 
could easily construct the plan on AAhich these several Missions were 
laid out ; and it a2)parently Avas adojAted, with foAV A'ariatious, in all of 
them : In the centre a large square, with the church and the collegio 
on one side, and the Ioav Indian cottages disjAosed in long rectangular 
streets all around it ; the strict regulai’ity of the AA’hole harmonizing 
Avell AA'ith the seAmre military discipline maintained therein. Only on 
tlie ParanajAanema did aa’c observe a peculiarity, of which the Bolivian 
Missions shoAved no trace — the remains of aauiIIs and trenches, slight 
fortifications eAudently necessitated by the repeated attacks of the 
PaAilistas. 
When AA'e come to rcvicAV all that has been advanced on this 
subject, the achievements of the Jesuits cannot but strike us as having- 
been grand and admirable, let their aims have been never so ambitious 
and selfish, and the means they employed never so immoral and 
disloyal. The degree of success effected by them appears the grander 
AA'hen contrasted with the existing condition of things under the 
modern Brazilian and BoliA'iau clergy. Indifferent as are the Govern- 
ments to the union of the diffused remains of the aboriginal inhabitants, 
it they desire to incite them to pr(Mluctivc activity and to save them 
