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OMAGUAS, UMANAS

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 98 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
OMAGUAS, UMANAS or CAMBEVAS (
flat
 -heads), a tribe of
South
  American Indians of the Amazon valley. Fabulous stories about the wealth of the
Omaguas
  led to several early expeditions into their
country
 , the most famous of which were those of George of
Spires
  in 1536, of Philip von Hutten in 1541 and of Pedro de Ursua in 156o. In 1645
Jesuits
  began
work
 . In 1687 Father Fritz, " apostle of the
Omaguas
 , established some
forty
 
mission
  villages. The Omaguas are still numerous and powerful around the head
waters
  of the Japura and Uaupes.


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