This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...this; and when I shoved off on Monday for the Ucayali, I left him engaged in another church service, setting off rockets, and firing, from I MISSIONS OF iMAIA'AS. 186 time to time, an old blunderbuss, loaded to the muzzle, in honor of a miracle that had happened in Rimini, in Italy, some year and a half ago, of which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...this; and when I shoved off on Monday for the Ucayali, I left him engaged in another church service, setting off rockets, and firing, from I MISSIONS OF iMAIA'AS. 186 time to time, an old blunderbuss, loaded to the muzzle, in honor of a miracle that had happened in Rimini, in Italy, some year and a half ago, of which we had just received intelligence. The governor general gave me some statistics, from which it appears that the province of Mainas is divided into the province proper, (of which the capital is Moyabamba, ) the upper and lower Missions, and the Conversions of the Ucayali. The upper Mission has four districts--Balza Puerto, Xeberos, Laguna, and Andqas; containing seventeen villages, and nine thousand nine hundred and eleven inhabitants. The lower Mission has two districts--Nauta and Loreto, with seventeen villages, and three thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine inhabitants. The Conversions of the Ucayali are confined to the villages of Sarayaeu, Tierra Blanca, and Sta. Catalina, and number one thousand three hundred and fifty inhabitants, mostly converts of the Panos tribe. They are governed by priests of the College of Oeopa, who are under the spiritual direction of its guardian; but hold their temporal authority under the prefect of the department. Arebalo estimates the number of whites in the Missions and Conversions--counting men, women, and children--at four hundred and seven. J loth Missions are under the authority of a governor general, who holds his eomuiisiou from the sub-prefect of the province. Each district has its governor, and each town its lieutenant governor. Tlio other authorities of a town are curacas, captains, lieutenants, adjutants, signs, sergeants, alcaldes, and constables. (All these are Indians.) The ce of curaca is here...
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