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distance. On the north side of the Igoatimy, twenty leagues from 

 its mouth, the Portugueze had formerly the fortress of Bauris, which 

 was abandoned in 1777. The Igoatimy has its sources ten leagues 

 above this place, among high and rugged mountains. The river 

 Xexuy enters the Paraguay on the east side in lat. 24° 11', twenty 

 leagues below the Ipane, another small river, called the Ipane-mirim, 

 intervening. 



This is a summary description of Portugueze Paragua}', to the 

 point where the territory ought (as our Tourist observes) to extend ; 

 and such is the situation of this great river, that the above-mentioned 

 rivers which concentrate toward the interior of Brazil enter it on the 

 eastern side ; not one enters it on the western, from the Jauru to the 

 parallel of the Ipane. Many parts of the banks of all those rivers 

 are laid under water at the time of the floods, and the plains are 

 covered to a considerable depth. 



A river of such vast size as the Paraguay, in a temperate and sa- 

 lubrious climate, abounding with fish, bordered by extensive plains 

 and high mountains, intersected by so many rivers, bays, lakes, and 

 forests, must naturally have drawn many of the Indian nations to in- 

 habit its banks : but, immediately after the discovery of the new con- 

 tinent, the incursions of the Paulistas and Spaniards seem to have dis- 

 persed and destroyed the numerous tribes : the Jesuits transplanted 

 many thousands to their settlements on the Uraguay and Parana. 

 Other nations fled from the avarice of the new settlers to countries 

 less favoured, but more secure by reason of their distance, and the 

 difficulty of approach. This emigration of one nation to districts 

 occupied by another, became the fruitful source of inveterate and 

 sanguinary wars among them, which tended to reduce their num- 

 bers. There are, however, still some Indians left on the borders of 

 the Paraguay, among whom the Guaycurus, or Cavalier Indians, are 

 principally distinguished for valour. They occupy the lands from 

 the riverTaquari, extending southwards, along all the rivers that enter 

 the Paraguay on the eastern side, as far as the river Ipane, and in 



