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of Maroa. This village, containing one hundred 

 and fifty Indians, displayed an agreeable air of 

 ease and prosperity. We purchased some fine 

 species of the toucan (piapoco) alive ; a courage- 

 ous bird, the intelligence of which developes 

 itself like that of our domestic ravens. We 

 passed on the right, above Maroa, first the mouth 

 of the Aquio*, then that of the Tomo-j~. On 

 the banks of the last river dwell the Cheruvicha- 

 henas, some families of whom I have seen at San 

 Francisco Solano. It is also remarkable for the 



* Aqui, Aaqui, Ake of the most recent maps. The river 

 has been well placed by d'Anville; Arrowsmith makes it 

 recede two degrees too much to the west. From the mouth 

 of the Pimichin to Maroa is | legua ; from Maroa to the 

 Aquio \ 1. 5 from the Aquio to the Tomo ± I. ; from the Tomo 

 to the Conorichite and the mission of Davipe 2 J (1 leguazz 

 2854 toises). The Indians of Maroa made known to me a 

 tributary stream of the Rio Negro, which, coming from the 

 north, flows in from seven to eight leagues west of their mis- 

 sion. They call it Asimasi. 



t Tomui, Temujo, Tomon. New Portugueze maps, con- 

 structed at the Hydrographic Depot of Rio Janeiro, indicate 

 strange interbranchings of the Tomon with a Rio Pama and 

 the Rio Xie. This last name is nnknown to La Cruz and 

 Caulin ; but I have several motives for believing, that the 

 great Rio XJteta(Ueteta), figured on our maps, and for which 

 I made vain researches on the banks of the Rio Negro, is 

 the Rio Guaicia or Xie. This identity appears to me to be 

 proved more especially by the name of a tributary stream of 

 the Uteta, which is called by Caulin the Rio Tevapuri j for 

 there is a stream of this name flowing into the Guaicia. 

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