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PROVINCE OF MATTO GROSSO. 



the mouth of the river Abuna, from which it takes the name, and is the most 

 western land of the Brazil. 



This comarca is very little known by the Portuguese, and is in the power of 

 various barbarous nations. The Pammas, who possess a considerable portion 

 upon the Madeira, are of a white complexion. The Tamares are masters of 

 the adjacencies of the river Juyna, the first notable branch of those which 

 enlarge the Juruenna by the western bank. The Paccahas live to the north of 

 the latter. The Sarummas farther to the north, along the margins of the said 

 Juruenna. And, lower down, the UhaiJias. 



The Juruenna, which is said to take the name of a nation, has its origin a 

 little to tlie north of the Jauru. Its course is directed to the north, and it in- 

 corporates by two mouths with the Arinos, between the parallel of 9° and 10°. 

 Its large volume of water, more considerable than the river which receives it, 

 shows that it is joined by numerous other streams in its course. Hitherto, it 

 has not been navigated by Christians ; those who have examined it at the mouths 

 state, that its waters are particularly clear, and that various islands are situated 

 in that portion of its bed within view. It is discharged between two serrotes, or 

 hills, of trifling elevation. The island separating its two mouths is of medium 

 size and moderate altitude. 



The Jamari, and the Giparanna, are the largest rivers flowing from this 

 comarca into the Madeira. The first rises on the northern skirts of the serra 

 Paricis, in the territory of the Guaritere Indians, where it is called the Candeas, 

 waters the lands of the Camarares, who afford their name to one of its principal 

 arms, and discharges fifty miles below the fall of St. Antonio. It is said to 

 have a cataract two days' voyage above its mouth, and to flow through aurife- 

 rous lands. 



The Giparanna, also called Machado, has its source to the east of the 

 Jamari, also in the skirt of a branch of the same serra, and soon begins to be 

 enlarged by small streams, that irrigate the territories of savage tribes, and falls 

 into the Madeira, nearly thirty miles below the preceding. In its vicinity there 

 is sarsaparilla, and the cocoa tree, from which chocolate is made. Eight miles 

 below the mouth of the Jamari is an outlet of the lake Tucunare, little removed 

 from the margin of the Madeira. The river Soteiro and the Pacanova 

 descend from the southern side of the said serra Paricis, and fall into the Gua- 

 pore, the Soteiro forty miles below the Ubahi, and the Pacanova seventy 

 miles further. 



Along the banks of the Madeira and the Itenez, the only parts of this 



