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and on the east by Sierra of Mbaracavu, as it is at present.
and in the chain of mountains known either as San Jose or Mbaracayu.
forced their way through the mountains known as the Sierra de Mbaracyu.
hard by the mountains of Mbaracaya/, close to the great `yerbales',*

There were a number of accented characters in the original text,
that cannot be conveniently included in ASCII. Some of these recur
throughout the text, most notably: Guarani/ = Guarani; Parana/ = Parana;
Alvar Nun~ez = Alvar Nunez; yerba mate/ = yerba mate; Guaycuru/ = Guaycuru;
Guayra/ = Guayra; Diaz Tan~o = Diaz Tano; Paranapane/ = Paranapane;
Jose/ = Jose; Chiriguana/s = Chiriguanas; Payagua/ = Payagua;
Sen~ora = Senora; Iban~ez = Ibanez; and N~eenguiru/ = Neenguiru
(the last u is sometimes given without an accent).

The accents have been stripped out of words that are used
as part of an English phrase or sentence, but due to sheer volume,
are marked in the text itself when part of a quotation, book title,
or the like. The symbols employed are mostly obvious: (/) is acute,
(\) is grave, (^) is circumflex, (~) is tilde, (") is umlaut,
(,) [after c in the middle of a word] is cedilla; and (=) is breve.]

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Exception to accent acute on final e in Jose (may be a mistake in original):
and in the chain of mountains known either as San Jose or Mbaracayu/.
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Exception to accent tilde on n in "Senora" (may be a mistake in original)
the missions extended from Nuestra Senora de Fe/* (or Santa Maria),
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The following lines contained less common accented characters (as marked):

`Concordia grati(ae) et liberi arbitrii', by Luis de Molina (1588).
From the calumnies of the Jansenists to the follies of Euge\ne Sue
of the Lulis, Tobas, Lenguas, Mocobio/s, and others, are almost as savage
and launched into some disquisition he had heard in the solitary cafe/
Entre Rios, and of Santa Fe/.
as a point on the river Caracara, in what is now the province of Santa Fe/,
Cabot appears to have ascended the Parana to the island of Apipe/,
were known either as Tupis, from the word `tupy',** savage, or Tupinamba/s,
from `tupynamba/', literally, the savage or indigenous men.
but he omits to state if the `charbon broye/' was `bailli' at the same price
except when talking Spanish or to a foreigner. The word `aba/',
they apply the word `Abanee'.
called paraqua/ (`Ortolida paraqua'). Again, Angelis, in his work
derives it from Paragua/, the name of a celebrated Indian chief
about the sources of the Igatimi/, an affluent of the Parana,
and in the chain of mountains known either as San Jose or Mbaracayu/.
and sometimes as Caagua/s. They present almost the same characteristics
D'Orbigny in his `L'Homme Ame/ricain', estimates the Guaranis of Brazil
took occasion to fall upon the friendly and unsuspecting Timbu/ Indians
Pedro de Vera who won Canaria,' and his mother `Don~a Teresa Cabeza de Vaca,
After passing the river Iguazu/, he sent the two friars ahead
chan~ares, n~andubay, jacarandas, urundey, talas, and quebrachos,
Occasionally a fight took place with Guasarapos or with Pagayua/s,
[ may be misprint of Payagua/ ]
not far from where is now the town of Corumba/. There Alvar Nunez founded
Irala died at the little village of Ita/ in 1557, and was buried
town of Sa~o Paulo. Azara, who hated the Jesuits (his brother,
in the wild forests of the Taruma/, they employed a hundred and twelve years.
*1* Lahier (Francisci) S. I., `Ann(ae) Paraguarie, Annor. 1635,
in times of scarcity and danger been taken by their prote/ge/s
by the elder Lopez, President of Paraguay, under Lieutenant Patin~o in 1861.
call it Salto de Canandiyu/, which, according to Azara,
the giant ant-eater, and the mysterious bird known to them as the `ipetata/',
In front a band of men armed with mache/tes (cane-knives)
and at Santa Maria la Mayor upon the Iguazu/. Then famine raged,
to the banks of a little river called the Jubaburru/s,*
with Don~a Barbara of Portugal. By the treaty entered into at this marriage,
Montoya sent Fathers Jean Ranc,onier and Mansilla to the north of Paraguay
though in some places Jean de Le/ry* seems to indicate he was acquainted
The Mamelucos burst into the province of Tape/,* and,
when have good men (before the time of the encyclop(ae)dists)
who had taken refuge in the islands of the Lake Ybera/.
in his `Historia Paraquai(ae)' tells us), having made war in Flanders,
** `Historia Paraquari(ae)', book xii., cap. xii.
had several missions extending from Yuti to Cazapa/, thus being
Don Bernardino took his way to Santa Fe/, from whence he wrote
Don Bernardino's usual luck attended him in Santa Fe/. This town then formed
one of the man(oe)uvres which in Peru had stood him in good stead.
for his own saintly proceedings in his new diocese. Cre/tineau Joly,
in his `Histoire de la Compagnie de Je/sus', vol. iii., p. 333
killed the priests, and gone back to the wilds. From Santa Fe/
called Arecaya/, close to Asuncion, had fallen into disgrace; the Bishop
who was at Itatines, to transfer himself to Arecaya/,
The Bishop answered this advice `fort se\chement',* taking it
was `homme a\ visions', called in the rector of the Jesuit college
as the other clergy, endeavoured to organize a religious `coup d'e/tat';
esteemed the Jesuits for their `coup d'autorite/' in the same manner
that he was appointed Bishop of Popaya/n. As Popaya/n (in New Granada)
The armies met not far from Luque/, in a little plain known
to hide in, made a good battlefield. The village of Luque/,
In the open glades upon the n~andubays,*5* the algarrobos,
and the espinillos, hang various Orchidace(ae),*6* called by the natives
The Labiat(ae), Composit(ae), Datur(ae), Umbellifer(ae), Convolvulace(ae),
*2* Urunday (`Astrenium fraxinifolium: Terebinthace(ae)'),
curapay (`Piptadenia communis: Leguminace(ae)'),
lapacho (`Tecoma curialis' and `varia: Begoniace(ae)'),
taruma (`Vitex Taruma: Verbenace(ae)'), tatane (`Acacia maleolens:
Leguminace(ae)'), and cupai (`Copaifera Langsdorfii').
(`Guaiacum officinalis'), butac(ae), and the `Cedrela Braziliensis',
one of the Terebinthace(ae). It was sold by the Jesuits in Europe.
as of that of N~eembucu, cover large tracts of land, forming in winter
as did the Tobatines, who in 1740 suddenly left the reduction of Santa Fe/,
qui in Reductionibus Paraquari(ae) versantur, ex Rituale Romano
as if they were carved in n~andubay, contrasted strangely with their finery.
Their `cacique' was Ignacio Amandaa/, who commanded in chief
of which they had several, but notably at Yapeyu/ upon the Uruguay.
the Abbe/ Muratori* describes a paradise. A very Carlo Dolce
The Indians are all love and gratitude. No need in the Abbe/'s pages
and paints them quite as black as the Abbe/ Muratori painted them
the missions extended from Nuestra Senora de Fe/* (or Santa Maria),
on the east bank of the Parana, to Yapeyu/, upon the Uruguay.
The second, generally styled companion (el Compan~ero),
to Asuncion, others from Yapeyu/ to the Salto Grande, on the Parana/.
(`La Vida Apostolica del Padre Joseph Cataidino', Zaragoc,a por
is akin to tears. Perhaps, reading `Don Quixote' or `El Gran Tacan~o',
Their name for the god they worshipped was Tupa/, but `of that God
under the name of Ana/, yet they paid little adoration to him,
expatiated on its flames to the Chirignano/s, they said,
At that date Franc,ois Retz was General of the Jesuits, and on him devolved
marched upon Santo Thome/, where Altamirano had taken up his residence,
`O dura tellus Hispani(ae)!' It is certainly the case that Iban~ez,
*3* `Hoc itaque nuncio l(ae)ti altero ac incensi . . . Sacramento expiationis
with the painted figure of a saint, under whose (ae)gis they deemed themselves
That thaim thoucht thane off gret bewte/
** If this assumes to be Sa^o Paulo de Piritinanga in Brazil,
[ possibly should be Sa~o Paulo ]
from `la cruz a/ la fecha'.
and pronounced a\ la franc,aise, with the accent equal upon
the well-known Spanish name of Donna Maria della Cupidita\.
he becomes the lady's lover as in duty bound. `Chasse/' from Seville
that under the style and title of `Comte de la Emmande/s',
`dans une inquie/tude mortelle', as she might well have been.
version of his history, in which no Donna della Cupidita\ or de la Victoria
The Pampa Indian name of the bird is `trare/'. Molina (Don Juan Ignacio),
in his `History of Chile', happened to spell the word `thare/',
instead of `trare/', and then proceeded to make a dog-Latin form of it.
to recoup himself from the treasure of the conquered. `V(ae) victis',
*4* Yapeyu/ was the largest of all the missions. The name signifies a chisel
Educated as he was in the school of the Encyclop(ae)dists,
piously curse the memories of Pizarro and Corte/s.
about the ruined mission towns, mumbling their maime/d rites
run wild amongst the urunde/ys.

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