[286] ‘Hoc itaque nuncio læti altero ac incensi . . . Sacramento expiationis et pane fortim roborati’ (Ennis, ‘Efemerides’).
[287] Cardiel, in his ‘Declaracion de la Verdad’, p. 426, says: ‘Lo mismo es 28,000 mil Indios que igual numero de muchachos.’
[288] ‘Nec tamen resipiscebat et Divinam Nemesim quamquam clare experiebatur pro causâ Societatis.’
[289] ‘Declaracion de la Verdad’, p. 404.
[290] In fact, they much resembled those ‘crakys of warre’ which, with the ‘tymmeris for helmys’, Barbour, in the ‘Bruce’, takes notice of as the two noteworthy events of a battle that he chronicles:
‘Twa noweltyis that day thai saw,
That forouth in Scotland had bene nane.
Tymmeris for helmys war the tane,
That thaim thoucht thane off gret bewté
And alsua wondyr for to se.
The tothyr, crakys war, off wer,
That thai befor herd neuir er.’
The Bruce, Booke Fourteene, p. 392.
[291] This was in an action in the year 1756.
[292] ‘Miente de la cruz a la fecha’.
[293] The Mamalucos, or Paulistas, were, of course, the bitterest enemies of everything Paraguayan, so that a King had as well been styled of ‘Iceland and of Paraguay’.
[294] If this assumes to be Sâo Paulo de Piritinanga in Brazil, it is not unlikely one of the few books published there in the eighteenth century, if not the only one. Happy is the city of one book, especially when that work has nothing of a theological character in it, even though it lies from la cruz á la fecha.