Excerpt from British Guiana Boundary, Arbitration With the United States of Brazil: Notes to the Counter-Case on Behalf of the Government of His Britannic Majesty<br><br>Sampaio most distinctly implies that Lourenco Belforte in 1740 ascended the Branco; and on his authority the Brazilian Case (p. 142) asserts not only that such was the case, but also, what Sampaio does not imply, that it was Belforte who established his camp at a short distance from the cataract of the Uraricoera.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.