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duration. The Caribbees returned in such great 

 numbers, that only a feeble remnant of the an- 

 thropophagous Cabres was left on the banks of 

 the Cuehivero. 



Cocuy and Cuseru were carrying on a war of 

 extermination on the Upper Oroonoko, when 

 Solano arrived at the mouth of the Guaviare. 

 The former had embraced the cause of the 

 Portugueze ; the latter was a friend of. the Je- 

 suits, and gave them warning every time that 

 the Manitivitanoes were marching against the 

 Christian establishments of Atures and Cari- 

 chana. Cuseru made himself a Christian a few 

 days only before his death ; but in battle he 

 wore on his left hip a crucifix, which had been 

 given him by the missionaries, and through 

 which he believed himself invulnerable. We 

 were told an anecdote, that paints the violence 

 of his character. He had married the daughter 

 of an Indian chief of the Rio Temi. In a pa- 

 roxysm of rage against his father-in-law, he 

 declared to his wife, that he was going to fight 

 with him; she reminded him of the courage and 

 singular strength of her father ; when Cuseru, 

 without uttering a single word, took a poisoned 

 arrow, and plunged it into her bosom. 

 The arrival of a small body of Spaniards in 

 1756, under the order of Solano, awakened 

 suspicion in this chief of the Guaypunabis. He 

 was on the point of attempting a contest wit^ 



