its, for from one to two centuries, had recently taken place. An
unexpected order from the court of Madrid expelled them from all their
colleges and missions; they had in consequence been every where
arrested, put on board, and transported to the Pope's dominions. This
event, however, had occasioned no more disturbance than would have done
the change of a village-rector. In lieu of them, the secular clergy were
substituted, of which class was the individual who officiated as
missionary at Andoas, an individual whose name I wish to banish from my
memory. Madame Godin, stripped of almost every thing, not knowing
otherwise how to testify her gratitude to the two Americans who had
saved her life, took from her neck two chains of gold, such as are
usually worn in this country, of about four ounces weight, and gave one
to each of them, whose admiration at the richness of the present
equalled that they would have experienced had the heavens opened before
them; but the missionary, in her very presence, took possession of the
chains, and gave the poor Americans in their room about three or four
yards of coarse cotton, such as is manufactured in the country, and
called Tucuyo. Conduct thus infamous exasperated my wife to such a
degree, that she instantly demanded a canoe and men, and the next day
set out for Laguna. A female American at Andaos made a cotton petticoat
for her, which she sent to pay for immediately on reaching Laguna, and
which she preserves with care, with the soles of the shoes of her
brothers, converted by her into sandals--mournful tokens, rendered dear
to me as they are to herself!

While my wife was yet wandering in the woods, her faithful negro, with a
party of Americans from Andoas, ascended the river. M. R. thinking more
of his own affairs than forwarding the boat which should recal his
benefactors to life, scarcely reached Andoas before he departed with
his companion and baggage for Omaguas. The negro, on reaching the hut
where he left his mistress and her brothers, traced them through the
woods, in company with his companions, until he came to the spot where
their corpses laid, already putrid and uncognizable. At sight of these,
persuaded that no one had escaped death, the negro and his companions
returned to the hut, collected what had been left there, and again
reached at Andoas before my wife arrived there. The negro thence
repaired to M. R. at Omaguas, and delivered to him the property of his
mistres