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The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555)

Note 184 — 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.

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Paraguai.

[185] The town of La Asuncion.

[186] Thraso, the soldier in Terence’s play of The Eunuch. A German translation of this comedy, with a commentary by Hans Nythart, was printed at Ulm in 1486.

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