Noticia del principio y progresos del establecimiento de las missiones de gentiles en el Río Orinoco por la Compa. de Jesus, con la continuacion y oposiciones que hicieron los Carives, hasta el año de 744 en que seles aterro y atemorizo con la venida de unos cabres traydos que se havecindaron en C

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Noticia del principio y progresos del establecimiento de las missiones de gentiles en el Río Orinoco por la Compa. de Jesus, con la continuacion y oposiciones que hicieron los Carives, hasta el año de 744 en que seles aterro y atemorizo con la venida de unos cabres traydos que se havecindaron en Cabruta : lo que para mejor inteligencia iremos contando por los años en que se establecieron dhas missiones y lo que en cada año passo y como passo / la qual relacion haze un testigo de vista, q. lo ha andado todo por si mismo muchas vezes, religioso dela misma compa. [ca. 1750]

Eyewitness account by an anonymous Jesuit missionary priest of the difficulties encountered by the Jesuits in their efforts to establish missions in the Orinoco River Valley, just below the river delta and the city of Guyana, between 1731 and 1744.

[89] leaves, bound ; 23 cm.

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