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and farms, although some are liable to be flooded out. From this 

 province some rivers flow into the Marafion, providing good harbors 

 and anchoring places. 



211. Adjoining this province is the tribe of the Tucujiis, who are 

 in all respects similar to the Mariguines ; the chief rivers flowing 

 from this province into the Marafion are the Tucujus, from which 

 the province takes its name, and the Genipapo, with good anchoring 

 places and harbors. These have been settled and fortified by the 

 Dutch, and they have plantations there of tobacco, cotton, and other 

 fruit, cereals, and root crops. 



212. Adjoining the Tucujus lies the Province of the Tapuyussiis, 

 with many settlements running up to the great River Maraiion cover- 

 ing over 8o leagues. This province begins at the Curupapixo or 

 Curupap channel. These Indians are savage ; they fight with poisoned 

 arrows, and it cost us many men to conquer them ; they state that 

 two provinces farther on comes the Province of Amazonas. All this 

 country is quite wooded and well forested, with the characteristics 

 of the other provinces. 



213. The great River Maranon is 80 leagues wide at its mouth, 

 with over 3,000 islands ; the majority are inhabited by cannibal tribes ; 

 those nearest the North Cape are settled and inhabited by the Aruaca 

 tribe ; near these islands, toward Point Qzapararap, going E., lies the 

 island of the Nuanas, or luanas, and between this island and the 

 mainland runs the Great Para Channel. 



214. Near the islands settled by Aruacas there are others much 

 smaller, inhabited by the Carib tribes of the Mapuazes and the 

 Inengaibas, who are ferocious cannibals. In front of these islands 

 and between the two channels, i.e., that of the Amazon and the Great 

 Para, which are 80 leagues apart, lie three very large islands, not to 

 mention other smaller ones ; the one which is closest to the Amazon 

 Channel is 40 leagues long and 12 leagues across; it is inhabited by 

 the Jacare tribe, which is very numerous, and it is quite wooded and 

 well forested. Near this lies another, the largest of all and in the 

 center of them, and inhabited by the Pacaxare and Juruuna tribes ; 

 it is 45 leagues long and 20 across. Right next the Great Para Chan- 

 nel there is another island almost as long and wide as the last, in- 

 habited by the Andura and Pirapes tribes, with large settlements, 

 although they are unhealthy, both because they lie under the Equator 

 and because they are damp, hot, and heavily wooded. 



215. After crossing the Great Para Channel going E., on the main- 

 land and opposite the islands just described, lies the province of 

 Tocantines ; beyond that tribe is that of the Pinotubas, and right next 



