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PROVINCE OF BAHIA. 



the only one which they breed for the purpose of hunting. They covet nothing 

 so much of the Christians as instruments of iron. Their medicine consists in 

 plasters of pounded herbs, baths, and beverages of others boiled ; all derived 

 from the experience or tradition of their ancestors. The bow and arrow are 

 their only arms, both for war and hunting ; those who have been catechised 

 prefer the gun. 



Rivers and Lakes. — The most considerable is the river Contas, primarily 

 called Jussiappe. It originates and receives its first confluents in the comarca 

 of Jacobina. The streams that incorporate with it in this comarca, by the 

 northern margin, are the Preto, Pedras, Manageru, the small Area, Pires, 

 Agua Branca, (White Water,) and the Orico Guassu, which generally traverse 

 extensive forests, exhibiting few signs of colonization or cultivation. It receives 

 by the southern bank the Grugungy, little inferior to it, the principal branch of 

 which is the Salina. The Patacho Indians are masters of its adjacent territory. 

 Below this confluence is the situation called Funis, where the river runs with 

 divided rapidity, almost hid amongst stones, and discharges itself thirty-five 

 miles south of Point Mutta, and about the same distance north of the Ilheos. 

 Sumacas proceed fifteen miles up it to the first fall, where there is a populous 

 aldeia, with a hermitage. 



The Patype, which has its source in the comarca of Serro Frio, and there 

 has the name of Pardo, runs through a stony bed, with numerous falls, which 

 renders it unnavigable. Its mouth is ten miles to the north of the river Bel- 

 monte, with which it communicates in two places by the channels of Jundiahy 

 and of Salsa, which latter, about twenty-eight miles from the sea, divides its 

 waters between the Patype and the Belmonte. 



About five miles from the Salsa is the deep and circular lake of Antimucuy, 

 abounding with fish, and having two outlets into the Belmonte. 



Ten miles north of the Patype is the Poxim, and about the same distance 

 from the latter the Commandatuba, 



Fifteen miles north of the Commandatuba is emptied the Una, which rises 

 in the Aimore mountains, and gathers by its right bank the Braco do Sul, 

 that flows also from the same serra. Sumacas advance nearly ten miles above 

 this confluence, which is about three miles distant from the sea. 



The river Ilheos is the entrance of a fine bay, into which various streams 

 flow, navigable with the tide for a greater or less distance ; but the only consi- 

 derable one is the Cachoeira, along the banks of which is a fine flat roadway, 

 nearly half the distance of its extent. The Engenho is navigable for the space 



