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The most illustrious palms and laurels that kings and princes can win in this world are in contempt of temporal things, to turn their desires to things spiritual. This cannot be more usefully accomplished than by attracting through their labour and piety an infinite number of savage souls (who live without faith, law, or knowledge of the true God) to profess the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman religion. C. GREEN able, in addition to God's commandment which says, that the conversion of the infidel is of more value than the conquest of a kingdom.
Further, we find the Spaniards seeking it in armed array from an unwarlike timid crowd. Furthermore, inasmuch as the aborigines. had real lords and princes, the populace could not procure new lords without other reasonable cause, this being to the hurt of their former lords. Further, on the other hand, these lords themselves could not appoint a new prince without the assent of the populace. " Everything that Vitoria says here about the Spaniards and their methods of acquiring consent from the Indians is equally true of the French explorers.
In conformity with these instructions, after receiving five copper tables, and five coats of arms. , the two pilots sailed. . On this day they buried in the earth one of the copper plates, and erected over it a cross with the inscription Russian Imperial Territory. . At the extremity of the wood, on the right side of the entrance, and near a little island covered with trees, we buried. another of the copper plates. . Atascha, the brother of the Toion Shenuga,. . came. and traded with us. C.