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above the arraial of Agiiaquente. These rivers possess the same fish as the 

 Tucantines. 



The territory lying between the two Uberavas is a plain of thirty-five miles 

 in width, vidthout the least elevation above the horizon, and absolutely destitute 

 of wood ; but supplying the deer and the emu ostrich. 



In the middle of the last century there lived, between the Parannahiba and 

 the Rio Grande, a horde of Bororos, whose cacique was then a Paulista, called 

 Antonio Pirez de Campos, a youth of much subtilty, and well adapted for the 

 management of those savages amongst whom he sought refuge, being driven 

 from civilized society by the extent of his crimes. He died, between the years 

 1750 and 1760, of a wound which he received in the arm, in an encounter with 

 the Cayapos. His comrades applied medicinally, for many days, hot broiled 

 bacon to the wound, until they conveyed him to a Christianized establishment 

 in Minas Geraes, to try if he could be there cured. They lamented for a 

 month over him as a common father. 



Amongst other serras in the northern part is that of Caldas, four leagues 

 square, and flat upon the summit, where there are some lakes and deer. 



The principal povoa^oes are Meia Ponte, Santa Luzia, Santa Cruz, St. Do- 

 mingos, and Desemboque. 



Meia Ponte is the largest, most flourishing, and commercial povoa^ao in the 

 province, with the exception of the capital, from which it is ninety miles distant 

 to the east, and is situated near the Almas, which there is only an inconsiderable 

 stream. It has a church of Nossa Senhora of Rozario, four hermidas, three 

 dedicated to Our Lady, with the titles of Carmo, Lapa, and Rozario, of the 

 blacks, another of the Lord of Bom Fim, and an Hospicio d' Esmoleres (an 

 alms-house for the entertainment of the travelling brotherhood) of Terra Santa. 

 It was founded in the year 1731, is the head of the julgado, well supplied with 

 meat and fish, and has a royal professor of Latin, Its inhabitants, and those 

 of the environs, cultivate Indian corn, wheat, mandioca, tobacco, cotton, 

 sugar, some coffee, and breed cattle; likewise many hogs. They manufacture 

 certain descriptions of cloth, both of wool and cotton ; and hence this place 

 is considered the cradle and centre of the agriculture and industry of the pro- 

 vince. The caravans from the capital and from Cuiaba, proceeding to the 

 metropolis, to St. Paulo, or Bahia, pass this way. 



About eighteen miles to the east-north-east is the cordillera called Montes 

 Pyrenees, (the Pyrenees.) From its sides flow torrents to the four cardinal points. 



Nearly fifty miles to the east of Meia Ponte, in the vicinity of some fine hills, 



