PROVINCE OF PARA. 



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right, fifteen miles south of the capital. Six miles below this confluence the 

 Moju is nearly a mile in width. 



The river Guama, likewise considerable, comes from the east, traversing a 

 fertile country partially inhabited to its source, and is discharged into the bay 

 of Guajara, near the Moju, having received, near forty miles above, the Capim 

 on the left. 



The largest island of this province is the Joannes, otherwise Marajo, situated 

 between the Tucantins and the Amazons, with the ocean on the north, and the 

 strait of Tagypuru on the south. It extends ninety miles from north to south, 

 and one hundred and twenty from east to west, is inhabited and watered by 

 various rivers ; abounding in cattle, and formerly had the title of a barony. 



Its principal rivers are the Anajaz, which issues from a lake, and has a course, 

 to the west, of fifry miles in a direct line. The Arary, something larger, flows 

 from another lake, and discharges itself by two mouths on the eastern side the 

 Mondin, which also runs to the east, and the Atua to the south-east: the whole 

 are navigable with the aid of the tide. 



The Nhengahybas, principally masters of this island, and Christianized in part 

 by the Jesuit Antonio Vieyra, were expert mariners, as well as others living upon 

 the adjacent rivers, and possessed a great number of canoes, denominated in 

 their own language igaras, from which they derived the appellation of Igaruanas ; 

 and always proceeding in canoes, were distinguished by this name from tribes 

 who lived in woods.distant from the water. Under the denomination of Igaruanas 

 were also comprehended the Tupinambas, the Mammayamas, the Guayanas, 

 the Juruanas, the Pacayas, and others. They had small igaras for fishing and 

 proceeding from one neighbouring place to another; but their war igaras were 

 forty and fifty feet long, of one trunk, excavated with stone axes and fire, and 

 were called maracatims, from maraca, the name of a certain instrument made of 

 a gourd, with stones or dried legumes within; and tim, which properiy signifies 

 the nose, but translated to imply the beak of a bird, and even the prow of the 

 vessel, in consequence of these canoes having at the head a large vara, or pole, 

 in the form of a bowsprit, to which the maracas were suspended with small cords, 

 clashing together with a loud rattling noise equally warlike and terrific. Their 

 battles were fatal, and decided with the arrow, spear, and club. 



The Igaruanas of the lower Amazons were esteemed the very best of rowers, 

 when they were habituated to it from their infancy. It was they who, by the 

 force of the oar, conducted the fleet of Captain Pedro Teyxeira from the bay of 

 Guajara to the sight of the Andes. 



