A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)
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A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767
Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)
Jesuits -- Paraguay; Paraguay -- History -- To 1811
[333] Brabo, ‘Coleccion de Documentos’, etc., p. 280.
[334] The alcaldes of Indian villages usually have a long cane with a
silver head, like those formerly carried by footmen, as a badge of
their office. In remote places I have seen them, with their canes in
their hands, a battered tall hat upon their heads, a linen jacket and
trousers, and barefooted, riding on an ox, and thought that they served
to maintain the majesty of the law quite as well as if they had had
stuff gowns, horsehair wigs, and had been seated on a sack of wool.
[335] Vol. iii., book v., cap. viii., p. 130 (‘Ensayo de la Historia
Civil del Paraguay’, etc.): ‘Los Caciques y corregidores que
acompañaban a Bucareli, habian sido alhagados por todos los artificios
de sugestion. Esto á la verdad, no era mas que coronar las victimas,
que se destinaban al sacrificio.’
[336] Chapter IX.
[337] Brabo, p. 304.
[338] Brabo, ‘Coleccion de Documentos’, p. 320: ‘Y porque estoy
informado que muchos Indios de los que se habian ausentado con las
tropas Portuguesas, y que han residido por gran tiempo en el Rio Pardo,
Viamont, y otras partes se han restituido a sus pueblos, ciudaran . . .
de que todos estos con sus families seran traslados a los mas
interiores o distantes de aquellas fronteras por no ser conveniente se
mantengan en ellas o sus inmediaciones, y asi en lo sucesivo lo
ejecutaran . . . con los Indios que se restituyan, sin dejar alguno,
para evitar todo motivo de communicacion que puede ser muy
prejudicial.’
[339] ‘No conviene dejarles una entera libertad, que seria por extremo
fatal y prejudicial á sus intereses pues la astucia y sagacidad de los
españoles triumfaria facilemente de su rudeza.’
[340] Brabo, ‘Bucareli’s Instructions’, p. 327: ‘Que el commercio de
los españoles ha de ser libre.’
[341] The Paraguayan Jesuits were allowed to take away all their
personal property, and it appears that they did so.
[342] Cayetano Ibarguen had only two, P. Lorenzo Balda three, and so on
(Brabo, ‘Coleccion de Documentos’, p. 388).
[343] So late as 1818 Rengger, in his ‘Essai Historique sur la
Révolution du Paraguay’, etc., talks of arriving in Buenos Ayres ‘après
un court trajet de soixante jours.’ From thence to Corrientes he took
seven weeks, but does not say if the passage was considered short or
long.
[344] Funes, ‘Ensayo Critico de la Historia Civil del Paraguay’, etc.;
Don Feliz de Azara, ‘Descripcion y Historia del Paraguay’, etc.; and
also ‘Memorias sobre el estado rural del Rio de la Plata en 1801’.
[345] ‘Ensayo de la Historia Civil’, vol. i., book ii., p. 341.
[346] Funes, ‘Ensayo de la Historia Civil’, etc., book v., cap. viii.,
p. 133.
[347] Brabo, ‘Inventarios’, Appendix, p. 669.
[348] Demersay (‘Histoire du Paraguay’), writing in 1847, says of the
mission of La Cruz he saw a few trees still standing in a miserable
state.
[349] Funes, ‘Ensayo de la Historia Civil’, etc., book vi., cap. viii.,
p. 395.
[350] Hudson, ‘Naturalist in La Plata’.
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