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and Parana, ninety leagues south-south-west, in a direct line from 

 the town of Cuiaba, The place seems very proper for a register, to 

 prevent the smuggling of gold in this route, and to fix the duties on 

 goods passing to Cuiaba and Matto Grosso. The canoes and cargoes 

 are transported from the Fazenda de Camapuao by land about 

 a mile to the river Sanguixuga, the principal source of the Rio 

 Pardo. From the end of the land-passages the navigation continues 

 down the Sanguixuga, and, in the interval of three leagues, they pass 

 four falls to the Rio Vermelho (so called from the colour of its 

 waters), which enters the Pardo. Half a league from the mouth of 

 the Vermelho the Pardo has the fall of the Pedras de Amolar, and a 

 league below receives on its south side the river Claro, from which, 

 after proceeding two leagues of level stream, there occur nine falls 

 in the space of two leagues more. The passage of them occupies 

 twelve or fourteen days in going up the river, though only one re- 

 turning. Below the last of these, called the Bangue, the river Su- 

 curiu enters the Pardo on its south side. Three leagues below the 

 mouth of the Sucuriu is the cataract of Curare, about eight yards 

 high, to avoid which the canoes are hauled over-land, through a pas- 

 sage of a hundred yards. From this cataract, in the space of ten 

 leagues, there occur ten falls, which occupy fifteen or twenty days, 

 in ascending the river, though only one in descending. The breadth 

 of the Rio Pardo in this part is twenty-two fathoms. Two leagues 

 below the last of these falls is a deep inlet of three hundred and ninety 

 fathoms ; half a league lower the canoes are hauled over a space of land 

 of a hundred and fifty yards. Half a league further is the fall of Sirga 

 Negra; one league further, that of Sirga Matto; and a little more than 

 a league from thence, the great cataract, or Salto da Cajuru, ten 

 yards in height, to avoid which, the canoes are hauled through 

 a narrow channel here formed by the river. At a distance equal to 

 the preceding is the Cajuru-mirim, and immediately after is found 

 the fall of Da Ilha, the thirty-third and last on this river. Six 

 leagues below this fall, the Rio Pardo receives on its north side the 



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