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near the embouchure of the channel that connects it with the river Pacaya, 

 seven miles south of Melgaco. It has a church of St. Miguel, and the inha- 

 bitants, almost all Indians, are fishermen, hunters, and agriculturists. 



Oeyras is a small town, in a sandy situation, upon the margin and five miles 

 above the mouth of the Araticu, forty miles north east of Villavicoza and thirty- 

 five east of Melgaco. It has a church of Assump^ao, and its people are com- 

 posed of Indians of various nations, who cultivate the most common neces- 

 saries, and intiulge in their favourite habits of hunting and fishing. 



Between the last river and the Panauha originated the Aldeia dos Bocas, so 

 denominated from the Combocas, who were its first inhabitants, and from 

 whom also the Bahia dos Bocas derived its name, being a large bay, extending 

 westward to the bar of the Panauha, that disembogues near the southern 

 entrance of the Tagypuru Strait, 



Porto de Moz is a middling and well supplied town, upon the eastern margin 

 of the Xingu, (which is here very wide,) twelve miles from the Amazons and the 

 port of canoes that navigate these rivers. It has a church dedicated to St. 

 Braz, and the inhabitants are Indian farmers, and collect some exports. 



Veyros is a small town, well situated upon the Xingu, fifty miles from Porto 

 de Moz, near the mouth of a small current, having a church of St. John 

 Baptista, and Indian inhabitants of various nations, who produce a sufficiency 

 of common necessaries, and some articles of trade. 



Pombal is another Indian town, and of the same class as the preceding, but 

 only requiring the addition of a certain number of whites and negroes to render 

 it considerable and flourishing, in consequence of the uncommon fertility of its 

 soil, and the valuable productions with which nature has enriched it, having, 

 besides, great facility of exportation. It is eighteen miles above Veyros, upon 

 the Xingu, which supplies it abundantly with fish. 



The island of Marajo, in consequence of its proximity, may be considered 

 as forming a part of this district. Its principal povoa^oes are the following: 



Monforte, ci-devant Villa de Joannes, a middling town, and well situated 

 upon the bay of Marajo, has a church of Nossa Senhora do Rozario, and is 

 nearly fifty miles north of Para. A Juiz de Fora presides over the senate, and 

 it may be regarded as the capital of the island. 



Moncaraz, originally Cayha, is a small town, with a church of St. Francisco 

 d'Assiz, and ten miles south of Monforte, at the embouchure of a small river in 

 front of Collares. 



Salvaterra is an insignificant place, but well situated upon the southern angle 



