The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 310 AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA. order to place more extensiv^e woodlands and more numerous cataracts between themselves and their relentless persecutors. But in the terrible exodus they lost more than half of their devoted adherents by epidemics, disasters, and hardships of all kinds. JN^evertheless, they succeeded in gaining a refuge in the unknown lands on the banks of the Uruguay, and of the Lower Parana, remote from the Spanish and Portuguese settlements. . Here, and still farther west on the pres
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 310 AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA. order to place more extensiv^e woodlands and more numerous cataracts between themselves and their relentless persecutors. But in the terrible exodus they lost more than half of their devoted adherents by epidemics, disasters, and hardships of all kinds. JN^evertheless, they succeeded in gaining a refuge in the unknown lands on the banks of the Uruguay, and of the Lower Parana, remote from the Spanish and Portuguese settlements. . Here, and still farther west on the present Bolivian plains, where dwelt the Mojos and the Chiquitos, the Fathers had at last the joy Fig. 130.—Jesuit Missions. Scale 1 : 13,000,000. 310 Miles. of realising on earth that ' Kingdom of God amongst Men,' for which they had struggled so hard and endured so much. The term ' reductions ' given by them to their Indian stations explains the object they had in view. They wished to ' reduce ' the natives, to withdraw them from the influence of free nature, to regulate their lives by rites and ordinances- To secure their goodwill they shrank from no expedients, not even from the allurements of a generous diet. They were wont to say that the preachings of St. Paul reached the ear of the heathen through the mouth. The natives were beguiled also by music and the pomp of ceremony. When descending the streams
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