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An Account of the Abipones, an Equestrian People of Paraguay, (1 of 3)Dobrizhoffer, Martin

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An Account of the Abipones, an Equestrian People of Paraguay, (1 of 3)

Name: An Account of the Abipones, an Equestrian People of Paraguay, (1 of 3)
Author: Dobrizhoffer, Martin

Dobrizhoffer, Martin

Abipon Indians; Jesuits -- Missions; Paraguay -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800

In the course of the work, Dobrizhoffer frequently takes occasion to
refute and expose the erroneous statements of other writers respecting
the Jesuits in Paraguay, and the malignant calumnies by which the ruin
of their institutions in that country was so unhappily effected. It has
been deemed advisable to omit many of these controversial parts, which,
though flowing naturally from one who had been an active member of that
injured society, must of course be uninteresting in this country, and at
these times. In other parts also, the prolixity of an old man, loving to
expatiate upon the pursuits and occupations of his best years, has been
occasionally compressed. No other liberty has been taken with the
translation. The force and liveliness and peculiarity of the original
must of necessity lose much, even in the most faithful version. Yet it
is hoped, that under this inevitable disadvantage, Dobrizhoffer will
still be found one of those authors with whom the reader seems to become
personally familiar.




                                CONTENTS

                                   OF

                                VOL. I.


     PART I.

     Prefatory Book on the State of Paraguay.

                                                             Page.

     Of its Length and Breadth                                   1

     Of the Geographical Charts of Paraguay                  _ib._

     Of the Division of the whole Province                       2

     Of the City, Port, and Inhabitants of Buenos-Ayres      _ib._

     Of Nova Colonia do Sacramento                               4

     Of the new Limits established in Paraguay, at the
     last Peace, between the Spaniards and Portugueze            7

     Of the Port, Castle, and Fortification of the city
     of Monte-Video                                              8

     Of the Gulf of Maldonado                                    9

     Of the cities of Sta. Fè and Corrientes                    10

     Of the thirty Guarany towns subject to the
     jurisdiction of the Governor of Buenos-Ayres               12

     Of the sedition of the Uruguayans on account of
     the cession of their towns to the Portugueze               18

     Of the Fable of the pretended King Nicholas, and
     its origin                                                 27

     Of the famous General Pedro Ceballos, Royal
     Governor of Buenos-Ayres                                   35

     Of Tucuman, and the cities of Cordoba, St. Iago,
     &c.                                                        40


     Of Sta. Cruz de la Sierra, and the colonies of the
     Chiquitos                                                  46

     Of the Jesuits called into Paraguay by Francis
     Victoria, Bishop of Tucuman                                47

     Of the Province of Paraguay                                49

     Of its Metropolis, Asumpcion                               50

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An Account of the Abipones, an Equestrian People of Paraguay, (1 of 3)

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