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The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555)

Note 77 — 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.

[78] These Indians are the Mbaiás.

[79] Algarroba, the seed of the carob tree.

[80] The vegetable from which they made wine was not the fenugreek, but the carrot-bean (Prosopis dulcis mimosa).

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