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desirable to capture children, who may he treated in the 
Son as poitos, or slaves of the Christians The prisoners 
were carried to San Fernando, in the hope that the mother 
would he unable to find her way back to her home by land. 
Senarated from her other children who had accompanied then? 
father on the day in which she had been carried oft, the 
unhappy woman showed signs of the deepest despair. She 
attempted to take hack to her home the cl^en^who had 
been seized by the missionary ; and she fled with them 
repeatedly from the village of San Fernando. But the 
Inchans never failed to recapture her; and the missionary, 
after having caused her to he mercilessly beaten, took the 
cruel resolution of separating the mother from the two 
children who had been carried oft with her. She was con 
veved alone to the missions of the Eio Negro, going u^ 
the Atahapo. Slightly hound, she was seated at the bow 
of the boat ignorant of the fate that awaited her , u s le 
judged bv the direction of the sun, that she was removing 
farther and farther from her but and her native country. 
Sh fLcSded in breaking her bonds threw herself into 
current She landed and took shelter in the 
name to tins day. « , i -missions ordered the 
woods, but the preside^ e^ foUow The traces of the 
Indians to ^ was brought back. Stretched 
S^fherock Qa Picdra de la Madre) a cruel punishment 
upon the rocKt straps of manati leather, 
SLhSS? to XP t that country, and with which the 
£des Ze always furnished. This unhappy woman, her 
Ws tied behind her back with strong stalk of mavaevre, 
was then dragged to the mission of Jav ja. { 
She was there thrown into one oi the carai anserais 
cafied las Casas del Bey It was the r W® S ^^ed ^o 
night was profoundly dark Forests t^ then bel eved to 
be impenetrable separated the mission of Javita tomtl .n 
of San Fernando, which was twenty-fiv o , tlie 
a straight line. No othei ^^“eo by land from 7 one 
rivers; no man ever attempted^ tc.g.yy.^d ^ deter 
village to another. But such The Guah na was 
a mother, separated from her cnnuie . 
