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the most westerly to push forward tlie peaceful conquests 
civilization towards the banks of the 
1 abaiaiido the Eio Sucio, and the Atrato.* The number of 
iiidependent Indians who inhabit the lands between TJraba. 
Ji.o Atrato Eio Sucio, and Eio Sinu, was, accordinrto a 
census made m 17(J0, at least ISOO. They were “dislri- 
I. .1,1 r.r.’A'”" 
vaguely to the whole coast extending fro,! thJ .f "'f* 
I’unta de San Bias, on 2f= of lonnfude Ti p ^ '^'«aquiel to the 
Pclmrias Davila rendered almost inaoc edible to thet. “ 
c-xpedaion of Don Manuel de Aldnrete in 172 ) ve ?' T 
tlie arclibisbop-viceroy, 
^ust, 1783, “either tlic 
, V...W va.x. vv«it, cAciiea oy the reports of tlie 
Goiigora. ordered, hy the cedule of the Ijtli August 1783 “ PiMy^. tl..* 
JmMans'of Darie'r'-''" Tu"’ 'l' * “ti'noion) of L 
Do 1 uonb do Arebato be 
1785, the fo“ur seulemelu; td S“„r C "I 
the Gulf of Iliuliin C-ajnun on the eastern coast of 
terminated by a treaty concluded Inlt i-H ‘•'^commenced, and was 
Vicerov and L cacique arebbishop- 
from the court to abandon Carothia Con' Pe' ra'ss")n 
seltleraent of Cayman onto waf rc«pP t Mandinga. The 
of the Atrato, and it was^ declaild free ' “a navigation 
archbishop-viceroy : it was pronosed tn •' government of the 
healthy spot, that of Uraba^ but licm settlement to a more 
having proved that he exmemio n 1 
of 40,000 piastref he for of C ' tn ‘he sum 
viceroy Espetota! to 1791 an 1 r'.T 
of the village of San Bernardo. " ® “"'l’«‘ted to join those 
