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The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555)

Note 216 — A true and agreeable description of some principal Indian lands and islands, which have not been recorded in former chronicles, but have now been first explored amid great danger during the voyage of Ulrich Schmidt of Straubing, and most carefully described by him. (continued 2)

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Paraguai.

[217] The expedition was composed of 250 Spaniards, and twenty-seven of them were cavalry.

[218] Payaguás.

[219] Ruy Diaz.

[220] Juan de Ayolas; cf. supra, p. 24.

[221] Payaguás. The Sierra de San Fernando is a small ridge of mountains extending from 17° to 21° of south lat.

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