Note 85 — 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.

Parabor. In Barcia’s Spanish translation this word thus written by Schmidt was changed into tembetá, which was the one used by the Tapijs (Tupis). Both are Guaraní words, and they represent the same thing; but parabog, or rather paraog, is more picturesque and accurate. It means a cover in various colours.