X i n t k o d m m t i o n ;
PBfitLLirlfefisi5 In*corifeqtfejiitce of this knowledge of tRe?
New Caroline^]'a lhip, called the HoLf T riNJ*t y wasyin?
1716 fitted out at^ ManiUay by order of Philip V#* to*
early f&b Miffibnaf ies, lesiPeres' DuberoN and Cortil, thither;
who'-arriving-off* SotfsoitbL, one of the Carolines,-
the two Miffionaries would go on fhore in the chaleupe, to*
fix. the Grdfs,* againft the-’opinion of Don PadIELA, . the-
"Captain, who, :asr’heieouH find noanchorage,' difTuaded them-
ftrongly fronv the attempt.^As the ve&l then* after cruizing
'abbot * for fever at days* to wait their return* could not,
on’ account of the winds and currents, remain any^ldnger
Un the ftation, the reverend Fathers were never heard ofi
more-. - Another veffel was fent from the fame- place, fome
time after, to; further the million, which it'was fuppofed"fhe
twi6 former-Jefuits had beguny but i* foundered at fea, and'
allPh board perifhed +, except one Indian, who at laft got back;
to MiiflroLA with the melancholy’ dews/ $
• In 1721; another boat, belonging to ©ne of the Caro-
li NE§r with twenty-four people in Was ’driven by force
of winds to Gua-han, one of the Mariannes J, k® appears
by th&'letter'of PfcRE Jean A»Xqieke CjtNiSovJr dated
AGADNAj-in March 1722^—Thefe fttangers beirrg;detained
a confideratle time," lie Pere- Gantova tells usi, that he
endeavoured- t o f o i h e knowledge of their I-angn%ej>
tharhe uiight the hetter inform himfelf of their country.
* Lctires Edijientes et Curieujes, vol.'xi. page 75. , t D% vol. xvi. page 368.
J D°, vol. xviii. page 18?.
In
I N;.T R O r>;u C T I 0~N. xi
<; In ths®jletter,*. Whiehyeontairii-;« fuller' information than
an-y of hei tells# us-y,jh^iT>md.erfi0od ■. from,1!the
Ihafciyea^thaferthis ^Arehijielalgb^-.^-as^ divided
ip t t fE W I
lpmviqcei;.or - diyifion ; but - th^a?iftrai%eii^Jwh0-i-gasv^him
this mtothgen^y»faidy- tb[oy>steady 'nb> cdmimihicaHeteta with
ithe people gjf-this p^oyl^e^s.^din^ithit/tbeykb.ef^Jn’bumaii
•andjaip&gq^ t'h&fr^0memanfl WQMf&'wanei \en tm^lfTiaWifaind
fed upon human \tber0J)a3ManM^tti’ei1D'& RdL i !ne s -
{Moused, qW’tbem i 'Pfoe i -emtmes' ^'man-kikd\i and
wjjPh, w-bo^n the^'.belddf'dangerous'to betioe, anyin^sreBurJ^iU-i'.
Tff f f f mention' I - fin d h f the ^PELsw^peiople!,
and aj dreadful picture itfie-pf barbaEdusslifd'rAbut? the-lMr
tiyes; of the Carolines* evidently knew nothingoof‘-them,
but -that they exifted at a coufiderabld diftance from them-
felvesy and -probably the notion which they- entertained of
their being cannibals, prevented their eVeEthavihgcany’ cQm-
. miphe^tion with. them ; ■;
2,jg --To pUR-F 1 f t H s of thefe iflands, \ which faffeMb'fit^Md
now brought- the Spaniard? -acquainted with, they food- g&'vo
the name of the New'Carolines''; but asllthei Miffibnarle^
who had unqueftippably been well informed; of the poverty
and nakednefs of them, apprehended that they were-n^ver
* Le Pert C antova fays, that this account.is-bohformable to the relation of Father
B e r n a r d M e s s ia t (probably another MilJionary) ; but where, thisj «/oft«« is to be
found, I know not, Having fri vain fearched for it. I therefore fuppofe it has not been
jpublifhed, though poffibly tiiayhe prefer ved among the rhaniifcript records of the P r o p a g
a n d a at R om e . - tWherever it be, it could only b eep] lofted from fuch ;vaguc, eviV
dence as C a n t o v a ' s j who was himfelf, a fhort time after, killed by the people’ o f the
C aroWNES.
likely