Viage que hicieron á Manoa los RR. PP. Fray Manuel Gil, Comisionado de las Misiones Seráficas, Fray Valentín Arrieta Misionero Apostolico y Francisco de Josef, Guardian actual del Colegio Fide de Santa Rosa de Opoca. año de 1767.
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n.p. copy, ca. 1767. [6] folios.
Fr. Manuel Gil was the leader of this Franciscan missionary expedition to Manoa in El Dorado territory where the Indians were revolting during the year 1767. He had a name similar to the eminent Jesuit mathematician and physicist Manuel Gervasio Gil (1745-1807), who, according to information from Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada(Espasa-Calpe, S.A., Madrid, 1925) Vol. XXVI, p. 34, was at Río de la Plata and was expelled together with other Jesuits to Italy during 1767. Considering the distance between Lima and Río de la Plata and the fact that one was a Franciscan and the other a Jesuit, it is difficult to believe that it was the same person. The information about the Indians' revolt in Manoa and the difficulties suffered by the members of the missionary expedition, including a list of the missionaries and Christian Indians killed during the revolt make this manuscript copy an important one (see folio [6]).
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