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eight miles from the Amazons, with a church dedicated to St. Thereza de Jezus. 

 Almost all its inhabitants are pure Indians, descended from the Uayupys, . 

 Sorimoes, Coretus, Cocurunas, Jumas, Hyupiuhas, Tamuanas, and Achou- 

 aris, and cultivate mandioca, feijao, rice, Indian corn, hortulans, and fruits; 

 in sufficient quantities for their subsistence ; they gather honey, and collect 

 some cocoa, cloves, and pechurim, from the proceeds of which they supply 

 themselves with iron tools, baize, and other manufactures for dresses. They 

 all pursue hunting and fishing. The women spin cotton, of which they manu- 

 facture nets and coarse cloths. This town was begun in the island of Veados, 

 which is below the mouth of the river Hyurba, from whence Frey Andre da 

 Costa removed it to the situation where it now exists. 



District of Hyurba. 

 This district is confined on the north by the Amazons ; on the west, by the 

 river from which it derives its name; on the south by the Spanish dominions; 

 and on the east by the river Teffe, which separates it from the comarca of that 

 name. It has eighty miles of width on the northern part, and abounds in tim- 

 ber. The rivers are stored with the same fish as the Amazons, and the woods 

 with a great variety of birds and game, as well as formidable wild beasts, that 

 wage war with the central Indians, of whom little more is known than the 

 names. 



Nogueyra, a middling town, pleasantly situated upon the left of the river 

 Teffe, almost in front of Ega, is ten miles from the Amazons and ornamented 

 with a church of Nossa Senhora do Rozario. The houses are intermixed with 

 orange trees, and the streets, being full of them, have the appearance of groves. 

 Its inhabitants are principally Indians of divers nations, and Mesticos, respiring 

 a fresh and salubrious atmosphere. They are fond of fishing, collect abundance 

 of the necessaries of life peculiar to the country, some articles of exportation, 

 and possess cattle. The first site of this town was more to the west, on the 

 southern bank of the Amazons, for the habitation of a numerous assemblage of 

 Indians, namely, Jumas, Ambuas, Cirus, Catauixis, Uayupes, Hyauhauhays, 

 and Mariaranas, brought together by the Carmalite priests. From that situation 

 it was removed to Point Parauary, five miles higher upon the same side of the 

 river, where Condamine found it with the name of that point in 1743, and from 

 whence the priest, Frey Joze de Santa Thereza Ribeyro removed it, in the 

 year 1753, to the place where we have stated it to be situated. 



Alvarens, originally and at times yet called Cahissara, is a small town, 



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