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on the west side, three leagues below the mouth of the Sjpotuba. 

 On the banks of the latter hves a nation of Indians, called Barba- 

 dos, from the distinction peculiar to themselves, among all the Indian 

 nations, of having large beards. 



The Boriras Araviras inhabit the banks of the Cabaral : they are 

 a mixture of two different nations, who in the year 1797 sent four 

 chiefs of their tribe, accompanied by their mother, to Villa Bella, in 

 order to solicit the friendship of the Portugueze. The nation called 

 Pararione lives in their neighbourhood, close by the Sypotuba. A 

 league below the mouth of the Cabaral, on the east bank of the Pa- 

 raguay, is Villa Maria, a small and useful establishment, founded in 

 1778. Seven leagues south of Villa Maria, and on the west bank of 

 the Paraguay, the river Jauru disembogues into it in lat. l6° 24'. 

 This river is remarkable for the boundary-mark erected at its mouth 

 in 1754, as well as for being entirely Portugueze, together with the 

 lands on its south bank, and bordering on the Spanish possessions. 

 It rises in the plains of the Parexis in lat. 14" 42', and long. 58° 30', 

 and running south to lat. 15° 45', the situation of the Register of the 

 same name, it there turns to the south-east for thirty-four leagues, 

 till, by an entire course of sixty leagues, it reaches its junction with 

 the Paraguay. There are salt- water-pits, which in part have sup- 

 plied Matto Grosso ever since its foundation with salt : they are in 

 the interior of the country, seven leagues from the Register, and ex- 

 tend to a place called Salina de Almeida, from the name of the per- 

 son who first employed himself in these works. 



These salt-pits are situated along the margins of broad marshy bot- 

 toms, in which are found fish of the same kind with those in the Pa- 

 raguay. The Salina de Almeida is not far distant from the bank of 

 Jauru, and the great quantity of saline liquid found in it continues 

 three leagues further to the south, where a junction is formed with 

 another from the west, called Pitas, westward of which are high and 

 dry plains, where are found numerous large circles, formed by a 

 species of palm called Carandas. These plains terminate nine leagues 



