[132] Literally, ‘taking out the blocks to air’. The effigies are made of hard and heavy wood, and I remember once in Concepcion de Paraguay assisting on a sweltering day to carry a Madonna weighing about five hundredweight.
[133] The proverb says in Paraguay, ‘No se fia de mula ni mulata’.
[135] Misque is at least fifteen hundred miles from Tucuman.
[136] ‘Que lo hagan salir de nuestros Reynos y Señorios como ageno y estraño, por importar assi para la quietud de aquellas Provincias, y al servicio de su Majestad.’
[137] A yerbal is a forest chiefly composed of the Ilex Paraguayensis, from the leaves of which the yerba maté, or ‘Paraguayan tea’, is made.
[138] Xarque, book ii., cap. xl., p. 30.
[139] This Villalon has left some curious memoirs in the case which he submitted to the Council of the Indies which sat in Seville.