There I wanted to descend the Araguaya as far as the. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
It was there, as I have said, that the great Araguaya had its birth. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
"There is only one boat on the Araguaya," said the Presidente to me. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
Some 28 kil. from the Araguaya we came to a small miserable farmhouse. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
Araguaya was perhaps, after the Madeira, one of the best known southern tributaries of the Amazon. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
The highest point we had so far reached on the plateau on which we were travelling since leaving the Araguaya was 2,400 ft. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
There were only two or three very small dug-outs on the Araguaya, none of which were capable of carrying more than one or two people. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
The latter river, by far the larger of the two and of a very circuitous course, flowed in a south-easterly direction into the Araguaya. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
On most of the maps of Brazil one saw marked to the east of the Araguaya, in the Goyaz Province, an immense range with no less a name than. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
A second railway line in course of construction was a branch of the Western Minas Railway; and there was a third up the Araguaya from Para. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
Dr. Pimentel, had already been in Goyaz some six months trying to start on a journey down the Araguaya, and, if possible, also to go up the. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
Tapirapez River -- a small tributary on the west side of the Araguaya, shown on some of the very incorrect existing maps approximately in Lat. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
Dom Pedro, the Emperor, there was even steam navigation almost all along the course of the upper Araguaya as far as Leopoldina, the port for Goyaz capital. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
Early in the afternoon we reached that magnificent river, the Araguaya, over 200 yards wide, although something like between 2,500 and 3,000 kil., or perhaps more, from its mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
The country, after crossing the Araguaya, was remarkably beautiful, from an agricultural point of view -- enormous campos or prairies -- over rich alluvial deposits, with scanty stunted trees upon them. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
There were some rocky falls just below Porto Castanho which prevented navigation as far as the place where we crossed the Araguaya -- otherwise the river was navigable from those falls as far as Conceição. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
Geographically, we were at a most important site, for it was from that point that the division of waters took place between those flowing eastward into the Araguaya and those flowing westward into the Cuyabá. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
Goyaz claimed from the State of Matto Grosso enormous stretches of land on the opposite side of its natural, indisputable geographical western boundary, the main stream Araguaya, as well as the isolated settlement of. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
Goyaz city could be reached -- within a few kilometres -- by steam on the beautiful river Araguaya, which formed the western boundary of the province, an ideal waterway navigable for 1,200 kil. -- in Goyaz province alone. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
This little rivulet was therefore interesting to me, for it was the first one I had met flowing north since leaving the Araguaya -- although not the first whose waters eventually flowed in a circuitous way into the Amazon. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
It was interesting to note that the head waters of the Araguaya -- flowing north, of course -- had their birth within an infinitesimal distance of those of two such immense rivers as the Inducassu and the Sucuru, flowing into the. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
In the small map, reproduced from the best existing maps, at the end of the first volume, several high mountain ranges, quite as high as the Andes, may be noticed extending from north to south between the rivers Madeira, Tapajoz, Xingu, Araguaya and Tocantins. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
Araguaya, were having a good time -- valuable presents of clothes they did not want, phonographs, sewing machines, fashionable hats, patent leather shoes, automatic pistols and rifles being showered upon them by expensive expeditions specially sent out to them. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
The River das Mortes flowed, roughly, first in an easterly then in a north-easterly direction, and soon, swollen by innumerable streams, became the most powerful tributary of the Araguaya River, which it met almost opposite the centre of the great island of Bananal. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
It would be possible -- although perhaps expensive -- by means of raised artificial lakes and locks actually to join at least one of these southern great rivers to the great Araguaya, and thus -- barring some troublesome rapids -- form a continuous waterway from south to north across. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
Since leaving the Araguaya we had been bothered a good deal nightly by the heavy dew, which absolutely soaked everything, made all our rifles and axes and iron implements rusty, and the tents and saddles and baggage considerably heavier for the animals to carry, owing to the moisture they had absorbed. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
In fact, the soil in the section directly below the higher terrace of the great central plateau of Matto Grosso, was formed by extensive alluvial accumulations which had made an immense terrace extending right across all Central Brazil from west to east, roughly speaking from the Madeira River to the Araguaya and beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
500 metres away -- an important watercourse, throwing itself eastward into the Rio das Mortes, one of the great tributaries of the upper Araguaya. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
Araguaya had its birth. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
Araguaya to Ponte Alto 26 400. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
Elevation of the Araguaya, i, 169. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
Abbey Nullius of Santissima Conceicao do Araguaya (Sanctissimae. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]] Reference
Araguaya. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
Concepção (on the Araguaya), i, 110, 115. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
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