The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 TOPOGEAPHY OF PAEAGUAY. 319 river, and which is said to take its name from a native chief, who held out stoutly against the Spanish invaders in 1528. According to the tradition, Sebastian Cabot, who was in command, did not venture to advance beyond this point, although he had repulsed the Indians. A few hills, which, like Lambaré, contain deposits of salt, follow along the left bank, enclosing the pleasant little riverside port of Villcta with its palm and orange groves. The heio-hts terminate so
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 TOPOGEAPHY OF PAEAGUAY. 319 river, and which is said to take its name from a native chief, who held out stoutly against the Spanish invaders in 1528. According to the tradition, Sebastian Cabot, who was in command, did not venture to advance beyond this point, although he had repulsed the Indians. A few hills, which, like Lambaré, contain deposits of salt, follow along the left bank, enclosing the pleasant little riverside port of Villcta with its palm and orange groves. The heio-hts terminate southwards in a headland, where the stream contracts, at the famous Angostura 'Narrows,' to a breadth of not more than 265 feet. Fig. 136.—South-West Paraguay. Scale 1 : 2,400,000. IGO Miles. Here also the Indians made a stand against the Spaniards, and three centuries afterwards the Paraguayans attempted to arrest the advances of the allies by the formidable lines erected at the same spot by the English engineer Thompson, But the Brazilian army, at the risk of being overtaken and drowned by a sudden rise of the Paraguay, turned the position by passing westwards through the Chaco solitudes, and reappeai'ing on the banks of the river above the Narrows. Below this defile almost the only places of note are the villages of Oliva and Villa Franca on slight rising grounds above the Tibicuary confluence. Villa del Pilar, usually called Nembucu, might seem to occupy an excellent position
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