Note 45 — PART I
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Their hospitality is equally praiseworthy. The stranger who is travelling through the country, no matter what be his nation or his religion,45 finds at every town the gates of the convent open to him, and nothing is spared that can contribute to his comfort and entertainment. They too are the architects and mechanists: many of them are the physicians and schoolmasters of the country, and the little that has been done towards the amelioration of the condition of the Indian, has generally been done by the Spanish clergy.