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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 27 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MURAS , a tribe of

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AMERICAN

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INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians living on the

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AMAZON

Amazon, from the

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Madeira to the Purus . Formerly a powerful

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PEOPLE

people, they were defeated by their neighbours the

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MUNDRUCUS

Mundrucus in 1788 . They are now partly civilized . Each

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VILLAGE

village has a

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CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief whose

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OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office is hereditary, but he has little

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POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power . The Muras are among the lowest of all Amazonian tribes .

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