In addition to their artistic interest , these missions are a reminder of the jesuits ' christianization of the rio de la plata basin in the 17th and 18th centuries , with the accompanying social and economic initiatives 除了在藝術(shù)方面的貢獻之外,公元十七至十八世紀天主教耶穌會的傳教機構(gòu)在銀河盆地不僅傳播了對基督的信仰,而且?guī)砹松鐣徒?jīng)濟的發(fā)展。
But my thoughts were a little suspended , when i had a serious discourse with the spaniard , and when i understood that there were sixteen more of his countrymen and portuguese , who having been cast away , and made their escape to that side , liv d there at peace indeed with the savages , but were very sore put to it for necessaries , and indeed for life : i ask d him all the particulars of their voyage , and found they were a spanish ship bound from the rio de la plata to the havana , being directed to leave their loading there , which was chiefly hides and silver , and to bring back what european goods they could meet with there ; that they had five portuguese seamen on board , who they took out of another wreck ; that five of their own men were drowned when the first ship was lost , and that these escaped thro infinite dangers and hazards , and arriv d almost starv d on the cannibal coast , where they expected to have been devour d every moment 我仔細詢問了他們的航程,才知道他們搭的是一條西班牙船,從拉普拉塔河出發(fā),前往哈瓦那,準備在哈瓦那卸貨,船上主要裝的是起貨和銀子,然后再看看有什么歐洲貨可以運回去。他們船上有五個葡萄牙水手,是從另一條遇難船上救下來的。后來他們自己的船也出事了,淹死了五個西班牙船員,其余的人經(jīng)過無數(shù)艱難危險,逃到那些食人生番聚居的海岸時,幾乎都快餓死了上岸后,他們也無時無刻不擔心給那些野人吃掉。
Had the stern of the ship been fix d , and the forepart broken off , i am perswaded i might have made a good voyage ; for by what i found in these two chests , i had room to suppose , the ship had a great deal of wealth on board ; and if i may guess by the course she steer d , she must have been bound from the buenos ayres , or the rio de la plata , in the south part of america , beyond the brasils , to the havana , in the gulph of mexico , and so perhaps to spain : she had no doubt a great treasure in her ; but of no use at that time to any body ; and what became of the rest of her people , i then knew not 從兩只箱子里找出來的東西看,我完全可以斷定,船上裝的財富十分可貴。從該船所走的航線來看,我也不難猜想它是從南美巴西南部的布宜諾斯艾利斯或拉普拉塔河口出發(fā)的,準備開往墨西哥灣的哈瓦那,然后也許再從那兒駛向西班牙。所以,船上無疑滿載金銀財寶,可是這些財富目前對任何人都毫無用處。