PART III.

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I. Of the deadly Hatred of the Abipones, and their Allies the Mocobios, towards the Spaniards 1

II. By what Means the Abipones possessed themselves of Horses, and how formidable this Attainment rendered them to their Neighbours 7

III. Of the Violences committed upon the Cities Sta. Fè and Asumpcion 14

IV. How much the Guarany Towns were annoyed by the Abipones 22

V. Of the Achievements of the Abipones in the Lands belonging to the City of Corrientes 29

VI. Of the Excursions of the Abipones against the Colonies of St. Iago del Estero 44

VII. Of the Expeditions of Francisco Barreda, General of the St. Iagans, against the Abipones and Mocobios 55

VIII. Of certain Defects in the Soldiers of St. Iago, of their Companies, and of the Degrees of Military Rank amongst them 66

IX. Of the Atrocities of the Abipones towards the People of Cordoba 77

X. Of the fruitless Excursions of the Cordobans against the Abipones 94

XI. Of the frequent Endeavours of the Jesuits in reducing the Abipones to Obedience under the King of Spain and converting them to the Catholic Religion 102

XII. A Colony founded for the Mocobios afterwards the occasion of Abiponian Colonies 113

XIII. The first Colony of St. Jeronymo, founded for the Abipones Riikahés 128

XIV. Some things worthy of note respecting Ychoalay and Oaherkaikin 141

XV. Further Praises of Ychoalay 153

XVI. Concerning the Hostile Incursion attempted by Debayakaikin and his savage Confederates against the Town of St. Jeronymo 163

XVII. Concerning repeated Expeditions undertaken by Ychoalay against Oaherkaikin, and the other Abipones Nakaiketergehes 170

XVIII. Of fresh Disturbances of the Town arising from the Victory gained by the Inhabitants 177

XIX. Ychoalay, in Conjunction with the Spaniards, takes a Company of hostile Abipones, and on another occasion, fights successfully with Oaherkaikin 183

XX. The whole Nation of Abipones are assembled in three Colonies, but are again unluckily disturbed by a War of the Spaniards against the Guaranies 194

XXI. An ineffectual Expedition of the Spaniards against the Abipones 202

XXII. The Cacique Debayakaikin slain by Ychoalay in battle, and his Head suspended from a Gibbet 207

XXIII. The Origin and Commencement of a Colony of Abipones, named from the Conception of the Divine Mother 213

XXIV. The Flight of the Abipones from the Town of Conception and their Return to it 220

XXV. The Vicissitudes and Disturbances of the Colony 227

XXVI. My Journey to St. Iago on business pertaining to the Colony 235

XXVII. My Stay at the City of St. Iago. The Visit of our Cacique, Alaykin, to the Governor of Salta 240

XXVIII. My disastrous Return to our Colony 245

XXIX. The perpetual Disturbances of the Town of Conception 254

XXX. The Arrival of Barreda, and the removal of the Town to the banks of the Salado 262

XXXI. The Calamities and perpetual Mutations of the New Colony at the River Salado 271

XXXII. A Colony inhabited by the Yaaukaniga Abipones, and distinguished by the Name of St. Ferdinand and St. Francis 278

XXXIII. Progress of the Town of St. Ferdinand, which was retarded by Debayakaikin 285

XXXIV. Fresh Disturbances, caused both by Strangers, and by the Inhabitants themselves 292

XXXV. The Origin and Situation of a Colony of Abipones named from S. Carlos and the Rosary 303

XXXVI. Commencement of the Colony 309

XXXVII. Extreme Indigence of the Colony, and its various Calamities 316

XXXVIII. Continual Tumults of War 323

XXXIX. Various Incursions of the Mocobios and Tobas 329

XL. Small-pox the Origin of many Calamities and bloody Attacks 337

XLI. Four Hundred Spanish Horsemen, in conjunction with the Abipones, overcome a numerous Horde of Tobas 346

XLII. Anxiety of the Abipones concerning the Revenge of the Tobas. Contagion of the Tertian Fever 355

XLIII. An Assault of Six Hundred Savages on the Second of August 362

XLIV. Corollary to the Events detailed in the preceding