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river network of the Orinoco, -and particularly the banks 

 of the Manamo Grande and the Cano Macareo, but also 

 extend, with little variation in their modes of life, along 

 the sea coast between the mouths of the Essequibo and 

 the Boca de Navios of the Orinoco. (Compare my Rela- 

 tion historique, T. i. p. 492, T. ii. p. 653 and 703, with 

 Eichard Schomburgk's " Reisen in Britisch Guiana," Th. i. 

 1847, S. 62, 120, 173, and 194). According to the 

 testimony of the last-named excellent explorer and observer, 

 there are still 1700 Warraus or Guaranis living in the 

 district of Cumaca, and along the banks of the Barima 

 river, which empties itself into the gulf of the Boca de 

 Navios. The manners and customs of the tribes living in 

 the Delta of the Orinoco were already known to the great 

 historical writer Cardinal Bembo, the contemporary of 

 Columbus, Amerigo Yespucci, and Alonzo de Hojeda. He 

 says, "quibusdam in locis piopter paludes incolae domus 

 in arboribus sedificant" (Historise Venetse, 1551, p. 88). 

 It is more probable that Bembo is alluding to the Guaranis 

 at the mouth of the Orinoco, than to the natives near the 

 mouth of the Gulph of Macaraibo, where Alonzo de Hojeda, 

 in August 1499, when he was accompanied by Vespucci 

 and Juan de la Cosa, also found a population having 

 their residence "fondata sopra T acqua come Venezia" 

 (Biccardi's Text in my Examen crit. t. iv. p. 496). In 

 "Vespucci's account of his voyage (in which we find the 

 first indication of the etymology of the term Province of 

 Venezuela, Little Venice, for Province of Caraccas), he 



