Imperialisms, Revolutions, and Resolutions in the Caribbean Amazon - The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha - page 96

By the late eighteenth century, the mocambos do índios , mocambos do negros , and
mocambos dos índios e negros appeared in the official literatures as slaves, deserters,
and the discontented, black, red, and white, fled into the maze of estuary islands, up
the igarapés , on the banks of hidden lakes, to the headwaters of tributaries like the
Trombetas,lurkednearplantations,orevaporatedintoforestsoftheCaboNorte. 29 Inad-
dition,thetriumphoftheSaramakamaroonsofSurinamein1762afterdecadesofrevolt
produced yet another “nation” pressing against the boundaries of European sovereignty
from the interior.