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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 571 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JURIS , a tribe of See also:

South See also:American See also:Indians, formerly occupying the See also:country between the See also:rivers See also:Ica (See also:lower Putumayo) and Japura, See also:north-western See also:Brazil. In See also:ancient days they were the most powerful tribe of the See also:district, but in 182o their See also:numbers did not exceed 2000. Owing to inter-marrying, the Juris are believed to have been See also:extinct for See also:half a See also:century. They were closely related to the Passes, and were like them a See also:fair-skinned, finely built See also:people with quite See also:European features.

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