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distance of western, curves towards the north-west, and afterwards to the 

 west-north-west. Two miles above the said town it receives by the left the 

 Alegre, which coming from the east, and rising in the serra of Aguapehy, is 

 joined on the left by the Barbados, ten miles from its mouth. Ten miles below 

 the capital the Guapore is united on the right by the river Sarere, which has its 

 sotirce thirty miles to the west of it ; and fifty miles lower, on the same side, by 

 the Galera, which forms itself to the north-west of the Sarere. Twenty-four 

 miles further the important river Verde is incorporated with it ; and upwards of 

 one hundred miles in advance, the river Paragau ; after two hundred more, the 

 Baurus or Baure ; and twelve or fifteen further, the Tunama ; all four by the 

 left mai gin, after having watered a great portion of the province of the Moghos, 

 or Moxos. Upwards of fifty miles below the mouth of the last river, it is joined 

 also on the left side by the voluminous river Ubay, or Ubahy, which the 

 Spaniards formerly denominated the Chiquitos, as it traversed the lands of the 

 Indians so called, and subsequently the Magdalena, named St. Miguel, after 

 they had founded in its vicinity the parishes of those names. To the river 

 Guapore the people of Matto Grosso give the name of Mamore, as far as its 

 junction with the large one of that name, which they call Madeira and the 

 Spaniards Mamore. This confluence is one hundred and ten miles lower down, 

 and one hundred and fifty by water. 



■ The Spaniards commonly give to the Guapore the name of Itenez, which 

 they continue to it till its confluence with the real Mamore, where both lose 

 their names, and form the majestic Madeira, which flows northward till it in- 

 corporates with the mighty Amazons. The margins of the Guapore, or Itenez, 

 are principally swampy, and, with the rivers which run into it, uncongenial to 

 European constitutions. The rivers which join it by the right margin, the 

 largest not exceeding one hundred miles in course, issue from the western side 

 of a continuation of the serra of Paricis, which prolongs itself with the same 

 river. The Cabixy, Piolho, Corumbyara, Mequen, St. Simam, and Cautario, 

 follow the aforesaid Galera. 



There are five falls in the Guapore, from the mouth of the Ubahy to the con- 

 fluence where its name is lost. Guajuru-mirim, Guajuru-grande, Bannaneira, 

 Paugrande, and iJages, descending, are the names by which they are distinguished. 



The Jauru, which forms itself in the campos of the Paricis, thirty miles east 

 of the Guapore, after flowing a long way southward, gathers, by the right bank, 

 the Bahia and the Aguapehy, inclines to the east-south-east, and unites itself 

 with the Paraguay, in the latitude of 16° 24'. It is navigable for a great dis- 



