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UMANAS OMAGUAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 98 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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UMANAS

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

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