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PROVINCE OF MATTO GROSSO, 



The principal rivers which enlarge the Pardo are the Anhanduhi Gua9u, 

 Anhanduhi Miriin, and Sucuri ; they join it by the right margin. The last and 

 smallest disembogues fifty miles below the Vermelho. The first, rising in the 

 centre of the province, discharges itself into the Pardo, seventy miles above 

 its embouchm-e. The Anhanduhi Mirim enters it forty miles below the Sucuri. 

 Fifteen miles above the mouth of the Vermelho, is the port of Sanguexuga on 

 the left margin of the river of the same name, where the canoes, which pro- 

 ceed up the river Pardo, are unloaded and conducted mcarretas, (a sort of cart 

 with four wheels, drawn by six or seven bullocks,) across an isthmus of near ten 

 miles in width, through plains and woods to the port of Camapuan, on the left 

 bank of the small river of that name, which originates near the first, in the 

 skirts of the serro of Sacco. From hence, the navigation is only with half a 

 cargo, and accomplished with prodigious labour (in consequence of the shoals 

 and stones of which this river is full) to the Cochim, where the goods are 

 deposited in ranchos, and well guarded, until the remainder of the cargoes are 

 fetched. Forty miles are reckoned from the port to the mouth of this river, tra- 

 versin;; woods deficient in fruits and game. 



The river Cochim, which originates in the vicinity of the Sanguexuga, runs 

 violently between sides, formed of steep and frightful rocks, which in some 

 places are narrowed to four or five fathoms ^ in other parts it passes through 

 extensive woods, affording little fruit, but abounding in game, where two 

 sorts of palm trees, in great quantities, are observed, the one called guacuriz, 

 the other bocayuvas. The principal of twenty-two falls, which interrupt the 

 navigation of this river, are, Mangaval, five leagues below the mouth of the 

 Camapuan ; Pedra Branca, near thirty miles below the preceding ; and Vare, 

 all requiring double the number of persons to pass ; Culapada, Furnas, Canel- 

 las d' Andre Alvez, Avanhandavussu, and Avanhandavu Mirim, two miles 

 distant from each other ; P. Luiz Antonio, which is very perilous ; Jiquitaya ; 

 and Cachoeira da Ilha, which is three miles above the confluence of this river 

 with the Tocoary. The principal streams which enlarge the Cochim are the 

 Inferno, (Infernal River,) Sellada, and the Jauru, entering by the right margin ; 

 the Furado, Orelha d' Anta, Joam Bicudo, and the Tocoary Mirim, by the left. 

 The latter enters near the embouchure of the Cochim. 



The Tocoary has its heads near the boundary of Cayaponia, much to the 

 north of Camapuan. When it receives the Cochim, it is already considerable, 

 and near this confluence there is a large fall of its name, where the canoes 

 are relieved of half the cargo, in order to pass it without danger. A little 



