Note 20 — CHAP. X. PROVINCE OF MATTO GROSSO.
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Bandeira is a name given in the Brazil to an indeterminate number of persons, who provide themselves with arms, ammunition, and every thing requisite for their subsistence, with the project of entering the territories of the Indians, for the purpose of discovering mines, exploring the country, or chastising the savages; the individuals who compose those companies, call themselves bandeirantes, and their chiefs, certanistas.