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 THE AMAZONS.

The town of Villa Bella, which is the principal guarana market in the whole province, was soon left behind by the giant raft. And so was the village of Faro and its celebrated river of the Nhamundas, on which, in 1539, Orellana asserted he was attacked by female warriors, who have never been seen again since, and thus gave us the legend which justifies the immortal name of the river of the Amazons.—Page 106. Vol. 12.