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Language:Spanish
Date:1748-1759
Contributor:Parras, Pedro José, -1788?
Subject:South America--History | Uruguay--History | Argentina--History | Paraguay--History | Missions | Jesuits | Spain--History
Type:Text
Extent:1 volume (450 pages)
Description: A travel narrative devoted in part to travels in Spain and to descriptions of Montevideo and Buenos Aires. One half of the work is the author's relation of a trip through Paraguay, visiting various mission pueblos. He provides a general description of life, education, and Christian teaching for the Indians. Includes list of Jesuits at various missions.
Collection:Diario y derrotero de los viages que ha hecho desde que salió de la Ciudad de Zaragosa en Aragón para la América, 1748-1759 (Mss.918.P24)
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Language:Spanish
Date:1785
Contributor:Doblas, Gonzalo de, 1744-1809
Subject:Economic conditions | Missions | Paraguay--History
Type:Text
Genre:Reports
Extent:1 volume, 268 p.
Description: A report for Felix de Azara, commandant of Paraguay, giving an account of Spanish policy toward the Guarani Indians living in missions, particularly after the supression of the Jesuits. Printed (with some changes in wording): Pedro de Angelis. Coleccion...; no. VI.
Collection:Memoria histórica, política y económica de esta provincia de misiones de Indios Guaranis (Mss.970.1.D65)