The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-19
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quay, it was apparent that the lonely passenger had become favorite. Why, was not apparent at first sight, Certainly he knew the river better in some respects than the Correntino pilot, and could point out the various places where, in bygone times, such or such spear or arrow.
 'Just between that tuft of palms un- der the mountain in the distance, Fath- CT Julian Lizardi, "a. Biscayan, received his martyrs crown in 1735 at the hands of the Chirguanas. Beside his body, pierced with arrows, was found his bre- viary, open at the office for the dead, as if, poor soul, he had been trying to read his own funeral service. In pace requiescat. There, where you see the broken tower and ruined walls-the 'tapera,' as they call 1t here in these countries-the Jesuits had town among the Guaycurus. This was be- fore the Philistines prevailed against them, and withdrew them from their work and light from the souls of the poor Indians"
 Thus discoursing and smoking cigar cites perpetually, for the newspaper contained nothing but paper and to- bacco, he wound himself into our hearts. The traders swore by him; even the Engishmen, when he said he was a Jesuit, replied that they did not care he was a d-d good fellow, and he smiled not understanding, but see ing they were pleased. The Brazilians | |, e., bt ei on the sly, though all free-thinkers when talking in the smoking room. The opera troupe were his devoted slaves, and he used to sit and hear their grievances, and settle their quar- rels. Even the gauchos, before they went ashore at Asuncion, chatted fa- miliarly with them, and asked him if he knew the Pope, and told him of the deaths they owed" and wondered if one of them who never was baptized and, therefore, had no saint, could go to heaven; to which he answered.: "Yes, my son, on All Saints Day"
 We left Asuncion with its towers and houses hidden In orange gardens, and the great palace, in the style of Palla- dio, by the rivers edge Asuncion, the capital of the viceroya1ty of Paraguay in the Spanish times a territory about as large as Europe and now a sleepy semi-Indian village, after having en- dured the three successive tyrannies of Francia and the two Lopezes--looks over the Chaco at the great desert, still an unknown wilderness of swamps and forests Then the river narrows and all traces of civilization are left behind. Here the Jesuit, for all had now begun to call him nothing else, seemed to brighten up as if he expected some thing, and his stories of the Jesuits of old times became more frequent.
 Little by little his own history came out, for he was not communicative, at least about himself. Near the Laguna de los Xarayes, it appeared that the company of Jesus had secretly started a mission among the Guasarapos, and he was of it. Never since the days of the Jesuits' glory in America had any missionary been bold enough to make the experiment. Fernandez and Alvar Nunez, in times past, had written of their fierceness and intractability. Nu- no de Chaves, the bold adventurer, who founded the town of Sta. Cruz de la Si- erra, had met his death close to their been known to come to the mission of El Santo Corazon, or sometimes to wander even as far as that of Reyes, in