ABSTRACT
The most glorious Mission, which has left a memorial on the banks of the Maranon of the zeal of the members of the Company [of Jesus], and almost entirely destroyed the grasp ing cupidity of the Portuguese of Gran Para, is that of the Omaguas, Jurimaguas, Aysuares, Ybanomas and other tribes, who inhabited the Isles of the above-named river from the junction of the Napo to the mouth of the Rio Negro, a dis tance of more than five hundred leagues. Where these tribes had been in former times situated and where they are at present will in due course be sufficiently indicated in the General Notices.
