. A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean ; illustrated with charts. GUAHAN. I SL AS Mariana S . ForP Alonao Lopez. JJlu^t frm^f BY THE SPANIARDS. 293 The IVlissionaries, wilfully blind to the true causes of the dis- ^^JJ^^^:^inclination of the Islanders to the Christian Religion, attributed 1671-,it to their extreme levity, and to the artifices of Choco, who issaid to have erected himself into a Bonze, and to have taught theChinese superstitions. It is evident that on the first arrival - ofthe INIission at the Ladrones, the natives were free from super-sti
. A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean ; illustrated with charts. GUAHAN. I SL AS Mariana S . ForP Alonao Lopez. JJlu^t frm^f BY THE SPANIARDS. 293 The IVlissionaries, wilfully blind to the true causes of the dis- ^^JJ^^^:^inclination of the Islanders to the Christian Religion, attributed 1671-,it to their extreme levity, and to the artifices of Choco, who issaid to have erected himself into a Bonze, and to have taught theChinese superstitions. It is evident that on the first arrival - ofthe INIission at the Ladrones, the natives were free from super-stitions or prejudices which could oppose the introduction ofChristianity among them, and that they shewed no unwillingnessto receive instruction from the Missionaries. Other instructiondoes not appear to have been meditated for them ; and this, itmay be presumed, was so coupled with precepts to inculcateobedience and submission to new powers, that, without theusurpations practised, it might reasonably have wrought a changein their disposition. But they now saw the coming of theSpaniards in its proper light. It
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