SOUTH AMERICA. “Fall’n nations gaze on Spain; if freed, she frees More than her fell Pizarros once enchain’d; Strange retribution! now Columbia’s ease Repairs the wrongs that Quito’s sons sustain’d.” --_Childe Harold._ SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE SOUTH AMERICA DURING THE COLONIAL PERIOD. BY ROBERT GRANT WATSON, EDITOR OF “MURRAY’S HANDBOOK OF GREECE,” FOURTH EDITION, 1872. _IN TWO VOLUMES._ VOL. II. LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL. 1884. [_All rights reserved._] Ballantyne Press BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PAGE CHAPTER I. BRAZIL; THE DUTCH WAR: 1623-1637 1 CHAPTER II. BRAZIL; THE DUTCH WAR. GOVERNMENT OF COUNT MAURICE OF NASSAU: 1638-1644 22 CHAPTER III. BRAZIL; THE DUTCH WAR; RISING OF THE PORTUGUESE: 1644-1645 42 CHAPTER IV. BRAZIL; CONCLUSION OF THE DUTCH WAR: 1646-1661 53 CHAPTER V. JESUIT MISSIONS IN NORTHERN BRAZIL: 1652-1662 76 CHAPTER VI. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FRENCH IN SOUTH AMERICA: 1657-1696 95 CHAPTER VII. BRAZIL; ITS PROGRESS DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: 1600-1700 112 CHAPTER VIII. PERU; PROGRESS OF THE VICEROYALTY: 1551-1774 126 CHAPTER IX. VICEROYALTY OF NEW GRANADA: 1535-179O 146 CHAPTER X. CHILI; PROGRESS OF THE COLONY: 1604-1792 159 CHAPTER XI. BRAZIL; DISCOVERY OF THE MINES; ATTEMPT OF THE FRENCH ON RIO DE JANEIRO: 1702-1720 169 CHAPTER XII. BRAZIL; DISCOVERY OF THE DIAMOND DISTRICT: 1724-1749 186 CHAPTER XIII. PROGRESS OF BUENOS AYRES: 1580-1800 203 CHAPTER XIV. BRAZIL; THE WAR OF THE SEVEN REDUCTIONS: 1750-1761 218 CHAPTER XV. EXPULSION OF THE JESUITS FROM PORTUGAL AND BRAZIL: 1759-1767 232 CHAPTER XVI. EXPULSION OF THE JESUITS FROM BUENOS AYRES AND PARAGUAY: 1749-1805 247 CHAPTER XVII. BRAZIL IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; ARRIVAL OF THE BRAGANZAS: 1776-1806 256 CHAPTER XVIII.