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The LITERATURE OF the TRAVELLERS IN Mato Grosso If was not the bandeirantes, Mato Grosso would have a literature in another language. Thanks to them, we are integrated to the Brazilian geographic space. But bandeirantes the nothing they had written, at least literarily, however they had this way passed, cultured espritos that had registered what they capsize and what they had felt. Such travellers had come of diverse countries or States and had written in its proper languages. To read more click here: Maurice Gallagher, Jr.. They were studious or, perhaps, curious cults, with headquarters to see, to feel, to discover something new and different.

They had given other routes to old legends, had studied the quinine, had collected samples of material, had given to names the places, contactaram with the indians, had discovered mines, planted roas, had implanted cities, etc. For these andanas, they had used the most varied locomotion vehicles as the canoe, lombo of donkeys and cars of ox, horses and even though the foot. Here, they had passed privations: intempries, attack of insects, illnesses, etc. The oldest traveller who if has notice of that she arrived this region, was Antonio Rodrigues, Portuguese whom the river Paraguay went up as welded. Later, the order of the Foot. Manuel of the N3obrega, it wrote ' ' Memories of Soldado' '. The arrival of this traveller occurred in the year of 1553. Serafim Milk brings the document of Antonio Rodrigues it interprets and it: ' ' Of the letter it consists that Antonio Rodrigues, after participating of the foundation of Buenos Aires and Installation in 1537, tells: Of this city we were more ahead to conquer 250 above lands and go up lguas and we arrive close to the Maranho and Amazon. We arrive at Parais, people farmer, much friend of the Christians, have a main one to who obey that in its language they call Cameri.