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PROVINCE OF GUIANNA. 



A few miles further, on the same side, near the large falls of Crocoby, is the 

 fort of St. Gabriel, with a povoa^ao of Bares. 



Continuing to advance up the Rio Negro about thirty-five miles, the parish of 

 St. Joaquim do Coanne is met with, three miles from its southern bank, and upon 

 the right of the Uaupe, which communicates with the Curicuriau by a channel 

 called Inebu. In this space, where there are some dangerous places, denomi- 

 nated Caldeirao and Paredao, with many reefs, the Rio Negro receives two 

 nameless streams on the right, and on the left the Mabuaby, Hyhya, and two 

 others without names. 



The above mentioned Uaupe, which is large, receives on the southern side 

 the considerable river Tiquie, whose mouth is five days' voyage from St. Joaquim. 

 It took the name of the Uaupe Indians, who perforate the lower lips and ears^ 

 and carry around their necks a white cylindrical and polished stone. 



Twenty-five miles above the mouth of the Uaupe is the large river Icannaj 

 which runs parallel with it and the Uexie. Six days' voyage upwards by the 

 Icanna there is a large cataract ; and, one day more, the bar of the large river 

 Coyary is arrived at, that joins it on the northern side ; it receives also the 

 Mabuyauha, which rises a short distance from the Uexie. 



In the upper angle of the mouth of the river Uaupe is the parish of St. Miguel ; 

 and a little higher, on the same side of the Rio Negro, is the parish of Nossa 

 Senhora of Guia, both inhabited by Baniba Indians. 



The parish of St. Anna follows on the northern bank ; afterwards St. Fillipe 

 on the southern ; and, more distant, that of St. Joam Baptista, inhabited by 

 Baniba Indians. 



Fifteen miles higher, the Rio Negro receives the large river Uexie, vi hich waters 

 the territories of the Bannyba, Capuenna, Mendo, and Uereqnenna Indians. 

 Between this river and the Icanna, the large serra of Tunuhy prolongs itself. 

 In the vicinity of this confluence is the parish of St. Marcellinoino. 



Thirty miles above is the fort of St. Joze of the Marabytannas, also on the 

 southern side, with a povoa<jao of Arihiny and Marybytanna Indians, being the 

 last Portuguese colony upon the Rio Negro, which after the Uexie receives no 

 other stream on that side, but the Beturu and the considerable Dimity enters 

 it on the northern. 



The canoe-men of Para compute fifteen hundred miles from Para to this fort, 

 and for the accomplishment of the voyage they consume nearly ninety days. 

 Thirty miles above the forte of St. Joze, on the northern bank of the Rio 



