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 in places its width is not more than fifteen leagues. The country is
impassable because of its swamps and quagmires which the Spaniards call
_tremelaes_ or _trampales_, or by other names _cenegales_, _sumineros_,
and _zahoudaderos_.[15] [Note 14: The Dobaiba may be either the
Magdalena or the Atrato.] [Note 15: All words meaning practically the
same thing, viz., bog, quagmire, swamp, quicksand, etc., some of them
evidently obsolete, as they are not found in modern Spanish
dictionaries.] Before going farther it may not be useless to explain the
derivation of the name of these mountains. According to native tradition
there formerly lived a woman of great in