( ) 
ble”^ Md morctrafta- 
ble , and leeing they could not gain any thin? on us bv 
force, deputed iome amongll ’em to eVaeand S 
k«Ld%f daLT*''’^, “d foon 
learned of them enough of their Language, to let ’em 
know the reafon of our coming into their Countt^ 
Thcfe Deputies undeceived the red ; fo that beint^ fatis" 
fied of our good Intentions, they came to i^meat 
Numbers, and fhew’d a great deal of Joy to fee that we 
weie willing to mftrufl: them in our Religion This hao 
py Difpofition incouraged us to ftudy througlily the 
A/oa^ai Language ; na which, and in inltruaing the^Peo- 
ple, we fpent two Years. ^ cneico- 
thought of difeovering other Nations • 
which that we might do more fuccelsiiilly the Father 
T diffqient ways : He went to the North anr! 
I to the. South ami Weft. By this means Fadier * Iw 
'vauen^ by little and little, difeover’d all thok Habta 
and bc.Joh»oi Lofida ; and I, all that Countri/ 
'’f St. Francs XaTur lh 
, Bia^do, which extends it felftothc South Sea 
ral Natkn^s^nf ^ ° w'® o^ferved feve- 
laiJSations of different longues mixt together ■ Some 
of them fpoke, the Mo^jru, which we underftood ancl 
L'P'wo.v, whicii we yet knew nothing of 'This 
obhged us to learn die LayrJ, which is of JeJer Ex! 
tent than the and. feems to be Univcrfalin 
t iisl ai^e Country. We apply’d our felves lb doll to 
f^a hSdme“'a Tk‘ it 
leither ’ indifferently in 
Since our fecoiid Difeoveries we Iiave divided all thk 
The firftis tharof i f 
or. out Lady of W/.. , The fccoiid, that of 
