It is, perhaps, not generally known that the Portuguese, as early as 1710, had a fair knowledge of the Amazons but the information gathered by their Government, from various expeditions undertaken on a grand scale, was long withheld from the rest of the world, through the jealous policy which ruled in their colonial affairs.
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