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endure the severest punishments inflicted for offences committed . Father Cyprian did not stop
there , but in regard that arts might considerably contribute towards his design of civilizing them he found means to make them learn such as were most
necessary . They soon had among them husbandmen , carpenters , weavers , arid other workmen of several sorts . But his chief care was to provide for the sustenance of those people , whose numbers daily increased , lie apprehended jest the barrenness of the country , obliging the converts from time to
time to leave the town , to go seek tor food on the distant mountains , they should by degrees forget the notions of religion he had with
so much pains inculcated ; and that missionaries who might succeed him , might not have strength equal to their zoal and si # k under so much toil , if they had nothing to subsist on but insipid roots .
For this reason he . thought of stocking their country with kine , which are the only cattle which can live and multiply there . They were to be brought from very far and ^ along bad ways . Those difficulties did not daunt
him ; he went to Sancta Cruz de la Sierra , gathered together about 200 of those beasts , and desired some Indians to help drive them . He climbed the mountains and crossed the rivers , still driving before him that numerous heid
which was bent upon returning to the place from whence it caii ^ c . Most of the Indians soon forsook him ; either their strength or resolutions failed ; but he was not to be daunted , continuing to drive on his cattle , sometimes up to his knees in mire , aqd cxposrd to bp murder-
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ed by the barbarians or killed by wild beasts . At length , after a toilsome march of 54 days , he arrived at his beloved mission , with part of the herd he had
brought from Sancta Cruz . God gave a blessing to his charitable design , for that small herd multiplied to such a degree in a few * years that there were many more than were requisite to maintain the inhabitants . x
After having made provision for their wants , it only remained ta build a church ; to erect this it was requisite he should put his hand to the work , and teach the Indians to erect such a structure
as he had contrived . He summoned a number of them , ordered trees to be cut down , taught others to make bricks , caused others to make lime , and afte * some months' toil had the
satisfaction of seeing his work finished * Some years after , the church be- * ing too small , he built another , much larger and handsomer ; and what was most wonderful , this new
church was built , as well as the first , without any of the tools requisite for such structures , and without any other architect to give directions but himself .
These'two great towns being formed , he bent his thoughts towards other nations : he went a journey of J days to the Eastward , when he came to some more Indians , and employed the same metho 4 for converting , them , which proved successful , and the town of St . Xaverius was formed .
After this he ranged the mountains in S . A for three years , searching out a new way across the mountains in Peru , and was finally successful in discovering it . He also went on many mis *
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Fattier Cyprian ' s method of Converting the Indians ^ \ $ 8
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 195, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/19/
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