Note 316 — Commentaries of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, governor of the Rio de la Plata.
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Martim Affonzo de Sousa held a captaincy on the extreme southern part of the coast of Brazil, for the Portuguese Government, in 1531. This was the Capitania de São Vicente.
[317] The Salto do Iguaçu, or fall of the Iguassu, is a succession of leaps made by this river at about eight miles from its mouth. The difference in level above and below the falls is 58 mètres. (Subsidies, etc., to the Physical Map of Brazil, Homem de Mello, Rio de Janeiro, 1876, p. 29; Azara, Viajes; Martin de Moussy, Description de la République Argentine, etc.)
[318] I.e., to the right bank of the Paraná.