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was a little of a cannibal ; " it is," says father 

 Gili, with the simplicity of an American mis- 

 sionary, " a bad habit of these people of Guy- 

 ana, in other respects so good, and so mild y 

 but truth obliges me to add, that the tradition 

 of the harem and the orgies of Cocuy is more 

 current in the Lower Oroonoko, than on the 

 banks of the Guainia. At San Carlos the very 

 suspicion of an action so degrading to human 

 nature is rejected; is this because the son of 

 Cocuy, who is become a Christian, and who ap- 

 peared to me an intelligent and civilized man, 

 is at present captain of the Indians of San Car- 

 los ? 



Below the Glorieta, on the Portugueze terri- 

 tory, are the fort of San Josef de Manavitanos, 

 the villages of Joam Baptista de Mabbe, San 

 Marcellino (near the mouth of the Guaisia, or 

 Uexie, of which we have often spoken above), 

 Nossa Senhora da Guya, Boavista near the Rio 

 Izanna, San Felipe, San Joaquin de Coanne at 

 the confluence* of the famous Rio Guape, Calde- 

 ron, San Miguel de Iparanna with a small fort, 

 San Francisco de las Caculbaes, and, finally, 

 the fortress of San Gabriel de Cachoeiras. I 

 enter expressly into this geographical detail, to 

 show how many settlements the Portugueze 

 government have formed, even in this remote 



* See above, p, 312. 



