Volume 1

The history of Paraguay. Containing ... a full and authentic account of the establishments formed there by the Jesuits, from among the savage natives ... establishments allowed to have realized the sublime ideas of Fenelon, Sir Thomas Moore, and Plato / Written originally in French. By the celebrated Father Charlevoix.

  • Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682-1761.
Date:
1769
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Credit: The history of Paraguay. Containing ... a full and authentic account of the establishments formed there by the Jesuits, from among the savage natives ... establishments allowed to have realized the sublime ideas of Fenelon, Sir Thomas Moore, and Plato / Written originally in French. By the celebrated Father Charlevoix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iident de la Gafca, who commanded in that king¬ dom for his majefty, to offer himfelf, and all the troops he had along with him. The prefident accepted his offers, and named Don Diego de Cen¬ teno, to govern Paraguay during his abfence. It even appears, that he intended this officer ffiould continue there. But, as Irak’s meffengers made a very long flay, becaufe they were obliged to go to Lima, where the prefident then was, his troops prelfed him greatly to enter Peru •, and, on being told, that he. could not do fo, without leave from the perfon who commanded there, they replied, that, if that was the cafe, they muff return to Paraguay. Upon this, he reprefented to them, that he had given his word to Chaves to wait for him, and that, in honour andjuflice, he could not go from it. But, the only eifedt thcfe reprefentations had on the folciiers, was to make them mutinv, fo that he found him¬ felf under an abfolute neceffity of yielding to their entreaties. At his arrival among the Xarayes, finding his veffels in good order, he took flipping to return to the Affumption, where he did not ar¬ rive till the third year after he had left it. In this interval, great changes had I547 49- happened at the Affumption. In about twelve months after his fetting out, Don Francilco de Mendoza, whom Irak had left to command there during his abfence ; and, indeed many others, began to think,, that Don Domingo Martinez de Irala, from whom, all this time, there arrived no news, had met with the fame fate with Don Juan de Ayolas. His friends, therefore, advifed him to propofe the election of a new governor, as he could make no doubt, they faid, of all the votes being for him •, and of his afterwards obtaining, by the intereft of his illultrious family, a com* million in form from the Emperor. Hr