[20] Bandeira is a name given in the Brazil to an indeterminate number of persons, who provide themselves with arms, ammunition, and every thing requisite for their subsistence, with the project of entering the territories of the Indians, for the purpose of discovering mines, exploring the country, or chastising the savages; the individuals who compose those companies, call themselves bandeirantes, and their chiefs, certanistas.
[21] Pantanos signifies marshy, and is the name given to the swampy islands at the mouth of the Tocoary, which are submerged at the floods.
[22] “By the treaty of limits, liberty was given to these Indians to remain in the country or to pass to the other side of the Guapore, which latter they did by the persuasions of the Spanish curates. The mission of St. Roza, which consisted of four hundred Indians, and removed in 1754, was near a waterfall, where D. Antonio Rolin ordered a fort to be constructed. That of St. Miguel, which was in a plain near the river, and had six hundred Indians, was removed in 1753; and that of St. Simao, which comprised more than two thousand inhabitants, and was removed in 1752, existed near a river a little below the situation of the Pedras.” Extract from the History of the Journeys of the Lieutenant-General of Matto Grosso. M.S.
[23] Passo is a picture or image representing some of our Saviour’s sufferings.
[24] The interior districts of provinces are so called.
[25] A bowl into which diamonds are put when found, from whence they are taken, weighed, and registered daily.
[26] He acquired the appellation of Caramuru, which signifies “a man of fire,” on the occasion of his first discharging a musket in the presence of the astonished Indians.
[27] “Where there was a Portuguese, who said he had lived twenty-five years amongst the Indians,” proving Correa’s shipwreck to be in 1510.
[28] The province is designated, as well as the city, by the Portuguese word for bay, from the great importance justly attached to its fine bay.
[29] “Sepulchre of Donna Catharine Alvarez, Lady of this Captaincy of Bahia, which she, and her husband, James Alvarez Correa, a native of Vianna, gave to the Kings of Portugal, and erected and gave this chapel to the patriarch St. Bento. The year 1582.”