[320] Bucareli, in a letter to El Conde de Aranda (Brabo, ‘Coleccion de Documentos relativos á la Expulsion de los Jesuitas’, Madrid, 1872), says in reference to the perils by which he imagined himself surrounded: ‘El misero diminuto estado de la tropa, por el atraso de sus pagas y la falta que encontré de caudales en estas cajas, era una urgencia que me atormentaba.’ [321] This war, undertaken by a fool (Lopez) against enormous odds, served to show what a people even when in the wrong, and in a bad cause, can do when it believes itself to be fighting for national liberty. As a matter of fact, Paraguayan liberty was not threatened for an instant, and Lopez declared war against both Brazil and the Argentine Republic out of mere ambition to be a second Napoleon. His solitary qualifications for the character were that, like his prototype, he was fat and loved women. The war commenced in 1865 and finished in 1870, and left the country almost a desert. So lonely was it, that I have often in those days seen tigers calmly walk across a road in mid-day, and a shout or a pistol-shot but little quickened their movements. [322] _Capilla_ was the name given in Paraguay to some of the smaller villages which had a chapel, the chapel (_capilla_) being more important than the houses. [323] El V. P. José Pignatelli, in his ‘La Compañia de Jesus en su Extincion y Restablecimento’, says that the Paraguayan Jesuits were all sent to Faenza. [324] ‘Carta del Gobernador de Buenos Ayres (Bucareli) al Comte de Aranda’. Brabo, ‘Coleccion de Documentos Relativos a la Expulsion de los Jesuitos’, p. 8, Madrid, 1872: ‘Les hice vestir a la Española asistiendolos y tratandolos de modo que conozcan la mejora de su suerte. . . .’ [325] Brabo, ‘Coleccion de Documentos’, etc., p. 101. The letter is headed ‘I. H. T., Ore Rey Nitu Don Carlos Tercero’. [326] Brabo, ‘Coleccion de Documentos’, etc., p. 185. [327] Ceremonies, no doubt, have their uses in enslaving mankind. A courtier once said to a Spanish King, ‘Your Majesty is but a ceremony yourself.’ [328] Letter to Aranda: Brabo, ‘Coleccion de Documentos’, p. 196: ‘Y las mujeres en tal extremo, que es impossible demostralo sin faltar a la modestia.’ [329] ‘Semejantes tiranias’. [330] P. 222: ‘Y teniendo presente que por lo que mira a este punto resulta de los informes que solo hablan estos Indios su idioma natural, pero que no es prohibicion de los PP. Jesuitos, sino por el amor que tienen a su nativo lenguage pues en cada uno de los pueblos han establecido esculas de leer y escriber en lengua española, y que por este motivo se encuentra un numero grande de Indios muy habiles en escribir (dos de ellos etan copiando hora esto que yo escribo y de mejor letra que la mia).’ Also pp. 223-225, etc. [331] Brabo, ‘Coleccion de Documentos’, etc., p. 200. [332] ‘Y sobre todo, fuera de la America y libre de Secretaria y Consejo de Indias.’ Brabo, ‘Coleccion de Documentos’, etc.: Letter of Bucareli to Aranda, p. 231.