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[717] and by the native inhabitants themselves, to send out fresh and mot inconsiderable reinforcements of men and money.. |
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He himself requires a goodly number for the Mission I have confides to his care in the vast Brazilian Empire, more extensive in itself than the whole of Europe together, and peopled almost exclusively by savages who range the immense forest of their native plains, languishing through ages for some friendly hand to draw them out of the ignominious barbarity in which they have been entombed for centuries, and which they may yet be condemned to for who knows how many generations, if the zeal of the Missionary, sustained by the charity of the faithful, does mot come to succour and liberate them.. |
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But as our dear Co-operators may easily understand, the outfitting of so numerous a body incurs an enormous expenditure in Sacred articles and vestments, in clothing and habiliments generally, in church ornaments, school furniture and household utensils, without speaking of the not indifferent and more pressing expenses of baggage and travelling both by sea and land. |