Monthly Archives: February 2012

, book xi.Then, remembering that calumny was a most serviceable weapon, he put about the town a report that the Indians from the missions had pillaged Yaguaron, and that they even then were marching on the place.The population, more artistic … Continue reading →

*3* In the missions which they had so long tended with such care, giving their muddle-headed love to the Indians in the ir Machiavelian way, all was confusion in the space of six short months.But, anyhow, Montoya, with true prudence … Continue reading →

And for the Indians, the few remaining are as much attached to their old wandering life as in the days of the discovery of the New World., talks of arriving in Buenos Ayres `apre\s un court trajet de soixante jours.Also … Continue reading →

‘ The people all believed, and Cardenas forgot to tell them that by the expulsion of the Jesuits twenty thousand Indians would pass into his power, whom he could then distribute amongst his friends as slaves, as he proposed to … Continue reading →

Nicolas Neenguiru, the writer of the letter, afterwards figured in the war against the Portuguese what is now the province of Corrientes, and several of his letters are preserved in the archives of Simancas, though none so interesting and simple … Continue reading →

* 2* Vide `Exc.– So there a different state of society arose to that, for example, in Chile or in Mexico.His dreams of saintship were not fulfilled, for his name never figured in the calendar.So little was the man feared … Continue reading →

The total export of their `yerba’ ranged between eighty and one hundred thousand arrobas, w hich at the lowest price could not have been sold at a profit under seven dollars an arroba,*3* so that the income*4* of the thirty … Continue reading →