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Your Holiness, the little matterthat brought me here is now settled.
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The Indians are once more free to be enslavedby the Spanish and Portuguese settlers.
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I don't think that's hittingthe right note. Begin again.
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Your Holiness, I write to youin this year of our Lord 1758...
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...from the southern continent of theAmericas, from the town of Asunción...
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...two weeks' march fromthe great mission of San Miguel.
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These missions have protected the Indiansfrom the depredations of the settlers...
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... and have earned much resentmentbecause of it.
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The noble souls of these Indiansincline towards music.
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Indeed, many a violin playedin the academies of Rome...
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... have been madeby their nimble and gifted hands.
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It was from these missions the Jesuitfathers carried the word of God...
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... to those Indians stillexisting in their natural state...
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... and received in return... martyrdom.
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