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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 949 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MOXOS , Mojos, MoHOS, a tribe of

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AMERICAN

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INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians living around the

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WATERS, TERRITORIAL

waters of the

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RIVER

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NORTHERN

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BOLIVIA

Bolivia, particularly on both

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banks of the

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MAMORE

Mamore . They submitted to Inca domination, but in 1564 gallantly repulsed the Spaniards . A

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CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century later, however, the

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JESUITS

Jesuits were welcomed, and the Moxos became devout Catholics . They number some 30,000 .

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