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knoyn to ns another tribe of Guayanos * in the southern 
hemisphere, living in the thick forests of Parana. Though 
it cannot he denied in general, that in consequence of dis- 
tant migrations,t the nations that are pttled north and 
south of the Amazon have had communications with each 
other, I will not decide whether the Guayanos of Parana 
^d of Uruguay exhibit any other relation to those of 
tarony, than that of an homonomy, which is perhaps only 
accidental. 
The most considerable Christian settlements are now 
concentrated between the mountains of Santa Maria, the 
Mission of San Miguel, and the eastern bank of the Carony, 
p ^ San Buenaventura as far as Guri and the embarcadero 
01 San Joaquin ; a space of ground which has not more than 
tour hundred and sixty square leagues of surface. The 
savannahs to the east and south are almost uninhabited; 
find there only the solitary missions of Belem, Tumu- 
femo, Tupuquen, Pucdpa, and Santa Clara. It were to be 
Wished that the spots preferred for cultivation w'ere distant 
rom the rivers, w^here the land is higher, and the air more 
tayourable to health. The Bio Carony, the w aters of which, 
o an admirable clearness, are not well stocked with fish, is 
ree from shoals from the Villa de Barceloneta,*a little 
above the confluence of the Paragua, as far as the village ot 
eruri. Farther north it winds between innumerable islands 
and rocks ; and only the small boats of the Caribs venture 
0 navigate amid these rmiAales, or rapids of the Carony. 
appiiy the river is often divided into several branches; 
that can be chosen which, according to 
e heigW of the wmters, presents the fewest whirlpools and 
great fall, celebrated for the picturesque beauty 
1 Its situation, is a little above the village of Aguacaqua, or 
T ^ ttiy time had a population of seven hundred 
f + V/ ^i. cascade is said to be from fifteen to twenty 
ee high; hut the bar does not cross the whole bed of the 
ver, which is more than three hundred feet broad. When 
more extended toward the east, it will 
ai itseh of the course of the small rivers Imataca and 
quire, the navigation of which is pretty free from danger , 
, » ^ are also called Guananas, or Gualaekas. 
T Like the celebrated migrations of the Omaguas, or Omegvas. 
