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MIGRATION OR THE CABIBS. 
Conorichite and tlie Atacavv None knew better than the 
Caribs the intertwinings of the rivers, the proximity of 
the tributary streams, and the roads by which distances 
might be diminished. The Caribs had vanquished and 
almost exterminated the Cabres. Having made them- 
selves masters of the Lower Orinoco, they met with re- 
sistance from the Guaypunaves, who had founded their 
dominion on the Upper Orinoco ; and who, together with 
the Cabres, the Manitivitanos, and the Parents, are the 
greatest cannibals of these countries. They originally inha- 
bited the banks of the great river Inirida, at its confluence 
with the Chamochiquini, and the hilly- country of Mabicore. 
About the year 1744, their chief, or as the natives call him; 
their king (apoto), was named Macapu. He was a man no 
less distinguished by his intelligence than his valour ; bad 
led a part of the nation to the banks of the Atabapo ; and 
when the Jesuit Eoman made his memorable expedition 
from the Orinoco to the Kio Negro, Macapu suffered that 
missionary to take with him some families of the Guay- 
punaves to settle them at Uruana, and near the cataract 
of Maypures. This people are connected by their language 
with the great branch of the Maypure nations. They arc 
more industrious, we might also say more civilized, than the 
other nations of the Upper Orinoco. The missionaries 
relate, that the Guaypunaves, at the time of their sway 
in those countries, were generally clothed, and had con- 
siderable villages. After the death of Macapu, the com- 
mand devolved on another warrior, Cuseru, called by the 
Spaniards El capitan Cusero. He established lines of de- 
fence on the banks of the Inirida, with a kind of little fork 
constructed of earth and timber. The piles were more than 
sixteen feet high, and surrounded both the house of the 
apoto and a magazine of bows and arrows. These structure 3 ' 
There is also an ancient portage of the Caribs between the Paruspa liI1 “ 
the Rio Chavaro, which flows into the Rio Caura above the mouth of tl,e 
Erevato. In going up the Erevato you reach the savannahs that 
traversed by the Rio Manipiare above the tributary streams of n 11 ’ 
Yenluari. The Caribs in their distant excursions sometimes passed fr°' v 
tlie Rio Caura to the Ventuari, thence to the Padamo, and then by tjj® 
Upper Orinoco to tire Atacavi, which, westward of Manuteso, takes t» 
came of the Ataoipo. 
