Crossword-Solution: ARAGUAYA 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Leavens made a last attempt here to engage men to accompany us to the Araguaya, but it was in vain; not a soul could be induced by any amount of wages to go on such an expedition.

Formerly, in the time of the Emperor and of that great patriot General Couto de Magalhães, Goyaz city could be reached--within a few kilometres--by steam on the beautiful river Araguaya, which formed the western boundary of the province, an ideal waterway navigable for 1,200 kil.--in Goyaz province alone.

The existing laws on mining were equally unsatisfactory, and the Presidente rightly remarked that "without facilities and guarantees, capitalists will never venture upon so risky and problematic an enterprise as mining in a State so distant and so difficult of access." He also exhorted the people to re-establish steam navigation on the Araguaya River, such as existed in the days of the Empire.

There I wanted to descend the Araguaya as far as the Tapirapez River--a small tributary on the west side of the Araguaya, shown on some of the very incorrect existing maps approximately in Lat.

Krause, had the previous year gone down the Araguaya River, where he had done excellent research work, and had also travelled up the tributary Tapirapez, crossing over nearly as far as the Xingu River.