Identifier: ThirdSalisburyAdministration1895-1900 (find matches)
Title: Third Salisbury administration, 1895-1900
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Whates, Harry Richard
Subjects: Robert Cecil-marquess of Salisbury Great Britain-History-Victoria,1837-1901
Publisher: Westminster,Vacher

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of Catalonia—who eventually came into contact with theDutch—had only entered a very small part of the country. It follows therefore that not until half a century after thethe Dutch had established a post up the Cuyuni, six weeksjourney from the Essequibo confluence, did the Spaniards, throughthe missionary Fathers, move out from St. Thome to meet them.As to their doings there is a vast mass of evidence, which hasbeen mastered by the Rev. Joseph Strickland, S.J., who broughtmuch learning and industry to his task and had the inestimableadvantage of freedom of search in the Capuchin archives inEome. He thus describes those of the documents which bearupon the extent of Spanish colonisation: The Capuchins firstchose appropriate sites on which to establish villages, and a fewfamilies of trusted Indians were taken from other missions andbrought over to the new village. Then the President of the NewMission, with a guard of soldiers and some trusted Indians, set 140 138 136 134 132 130 128
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140 138 136 134 132 130 Compiled from s Map published by the Province. Publishing Company, British Columbia V& S.Lith. THE FACTS OF THE CASE. 77 out towards tlie woods or up the course of the numerous rivers,in search of the Indians who had no fixed habitation and eitherinvited them or gently forced them to follow him to the newvillage, where every one was provided with a home and withfood, till the fields began to yield a sufficient crop for theirsustenance. This was called making an entrada. . . Thesystem was effective but necessarily slow, a circumstance whichexplains why the extent of country actually occupied by theSpaniards was so small, when the English succeeded the Dutch,in the Dutch part of geographical Guiana. The Capuchins extendedtheir missions in two directions: along the banks of the Yuruarioand its affluents and along the banks of the Parana, an affluentof the Caroni, which flows into the Orinoco. For the question ofboundary the only important point is, strictly spThirdSalisburyAdministration1895-1900

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