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dedicated to Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe. The first site of tins town was 

 upon the small river Capury, which empties itself into another called Moroen- 

 tyba, and which latter discharges itself below the Manhana, the third branch 

 of the Hyapura. From the Capury it was removed to the mouth of the 

 Moroentyba, and from thence to the situation of Taracoatyba, a short distance 

 from the Manhana, from whence it was removed seven miles below the mouth 

 of the Hyutahy, where Condamine says he saw it, and which situation was 

 changed for its present one. It is not known what nation were its tirst inha- 

 bitants. When it was in the fourth station — the Padre, Frey Joam St. Jeronymo, 

 collected in it many Pacuna Indians, who were previously living in aldeias 

 upon the eastern margin of the river Icapo : these were afterwards joined by 

 the Araycas, Marauhas, and Momanas, and, ultimately, by the Tacunas, Tum- 

 biras, and Passes. The whole are now agriculturists, fishermen, and hunters. 



Between Fonteboa and the Hyurba the Annamapiu is discharged ; and, in 

 the interval, between that town and the Hyutahy, five rivers more — the Campina, 

 Guruniaty, Puruini, Mannarua, and Icapo, which afford so many sheltering 

 places for the canoes at the periods of tempests in the Amazons. 



District of Hyabary. 

 This district, which is the most westerly, is confined on the north by the 

 Amazons, as the others are on the west by the river from which it takes its name, 

 separating it from the Spanish dominions ; on the south by the line of demarca- 

 tion between the two countries, common to the other districts ; and on the east 

 by the Hyutahy, from whose mouth to that of the Hyabary may be computed 

 one hundred and seventy miles. Both these boundary rivers produce the same 

 fish as the Amazons, and both afford extensive navigation for the exportation of 

 such productions as may be collected upon their respective margins. In the 

 vicinity of both there is sarsaparilla, and also cocoa. Their confluents are 

 totally unknown. 



Their extensive woods, which produce in vain, for the benefit of man, the 

 most precious timber, are occupied by the wild boar, anta, deer, and other quad- 

 rupeds and bipeds, which are pursued as game by the hitherto savage nations 

 of Marauhas, Uaraycus, and the Tapaxanas, who inhabit the lower part of the 

 country in the vicinity of the Amazons. At a greater distance are the Panos and 

 the Mayurunas, who make a crown upon the top of the head, and allow the 

 hair to grow to the utmost length. They have perforations in the nose and lips, 

 mto which they introduce long thorns; in the corners of the mouth they carry 



