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and may be passed in empty canoes. A league above is the fall of 

 Giquitaya, passed with half cargoes, and a league and a quarter 

 farther, that of the Choradeira, the current of which is very rapids 

 Beyond this is the fall of Avanhandava-uiassu, where the cargoes 

 are carried over-land for half a mile, and the canoes are conducted 

 through a difficult channel of three fathoms, at the end of which 

 they are pushed over the rocks in order to pass the head or cataract. 

 Half a league above is the fall Do Jauru, so called from a river of 

 that name, which enters the Cochim above it, on the north side. 

 From this confluence upwards there occur seven falls in the course 

 of five leagues and a half, in the midst of which distance the river 

 cuts and is enchannelled in a mountain, through which it runs- 

 smoothly, although scarcely five fathoms broad, and receives on its. 

 south side the stream of the Paredao, which is said to be auriferous. 

 Half a league above the last of the seven falls before-mentioned are 

 three successive ones, called Tres Irmaos, and at an equal distance 

 above them, that of Das Furnas, which is passed laboriously with 

 canoes unloaded: From this place the navigation continues on the 

 Cochim through a succession of falls, until that river is joined by: 

 the Camapuao, eight yards in breadth at its mouth. From this 

 point to its junction with the Taquari^ the course of the Cochim is^ 

 thirty leagues. . ...... (^.u- .. ; ;. 



The river Camapuao, along which the navigation is continued, be- 

 comes narrower on passing some rivulets that flow into it, and so 

 shallow, as to be in general scarcely two feet deep, and the canoes 

 are rather dragged than navigated along its sandy bed. After two 

 leagues of this labour, they quit the Camapuao-uassu, leaving it on 

 the right hand, choked with fallen trees, &c., and enter into the Ca- 

 mapuao-mirim, up which they proceed one league, when they reach 

 the fazenda, or estate, of the same name. This is an important esta- 

 blishment, belpnging to the Portugueze, in the centre of those vast 

 and desert regions that intervene between the great rivers Paraguay 



