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A90519	An historical & geographical description of the great country & river of the Amazones in America. Drawn out of divers authors, and reduced into a better forme; with a mapp of the river, and of its provinces, being that place which Sr Walter Rawleigh intended to conquer and plant, when he made his voyage to Guiana. / Written in French by the Count of Pagan, and dedicated to Cardinall Mazarine, in order to a conquest by the Cardinals motion to be undertaken. And now translated into English by William Hamilton, and humbly offered to his Majesty, as worthy his consideration.	Pagan, Blaise François de, comte de Merveilles, 1604-1665.; Hamilton, William, gent.	1660 (1660)	Wing P162; Thomason E1805_2; ESTC R209931	71,773	189

above-named it is impossible for Ships to take the same waies back again for returning to the places from whence they came that they held in coming from them so long as their Sailes must be fill'd with those East-windes so this great River of the Amazones hath this particular advantage beyond them that whole Armadoes can go from East to West and from West to East alwaies under the line and the same way both of going and coming and as the same time CHAP. XIII Of the Bosphore of the Amazone THe Thracian and Cimmerian Bosphores or Ox-swim-bredths were never so famous in ages past as the Amazonian Bosphore will be renowned in times to come in all apperance This one strange Strait of this River richer in one day than are at present both the Straits of Hellespont and of Elsenore shuts up in one channell scarcely a thousand paces broad or an Italian mile the whole great River of the Amazones proud of the spoiles of so many and great and long Rivers and highly puft up for his course of more than nine hundred sixty leagues through Plaines and Valleys the fertilest in the whole world and triumphing in all the waters that rise from the East of the great Cordeliere from the Town of Popayan to that of Plata which is the space of five hundred leagues This wonderfull Bosphore or Ox-passe which Providence hath reserved to be one day the Key of the richest Trade in the world and of the greatest Kingdom that is in one only Continent hath three hundred twenty eight degrees and fifty minutes of longitude and two degrees and fourty minutes of North-latitude and is three hundred leagues from the North sea following the course of turning and windings of this great River unto Zaparara however Father D' Acogna often enough variable in his measures carry sometimes this distance of the Bosphore from the Sea unto the length of three hundred sixty leagues But untill the longitude of this great part of America be better observed I intend alwaies to follow the least measures of distances Now this one only and famous Strait of the great River of the Amazones is yet further considerable for this that the flowing of the great Seas is here easily perceived offering a marvellous advantage to the commerce of this Rivers Navigation by the ebbing and flowing of the Ocean Whence it follows that the advantages of the first Nation that shall possesse its self by Colonies and Forts of both sides of this Amazonian Bosphore cannot be exprest in a few words For can any doubt but that the riches of so many Mines discovered and not wrought by the miserable depopulations of the rich Western Regions of this Peninsulare America will be one day snatched up by the greed of those will follow us and the multitude of men that will be born hereafter in these happy Countries and will in end be carried on the currents of so many famous Rivers as render themselves unto the Bosphore of the Amazone to be afterwards brought into Europe by the easie Navigation of the Atlantique Sea in comparison of the troublesome mountains of Panama the Corsaires and the Shipwracks of the Gulph of Mexico and the notable dangers of the channell of Bahame CHAP. XIV Of the first three Rivers that enter into that of the Amazones AFter that we have thus summarily described the course of the great River of the Amazones we will return to his beginning to handle anew the things that are without and adjacent to it But I could wish that Father Acogna the Authour and eye-witnesse of a part of these relations were more cleanly and understandable in them For not having been able to find either cartes or books to help my cares that I have to unfold these ambiguities I my self therefore rest not satisfied in this behalf with mine own work Without staying therefore to censure a Person of his Noblenesse and merit by reasons which I might and the curious may themselves perceive in his writings I shall take me to my Subject and tell you that from the Town of Cofana in the Province of Kixo to the East of the Andes of Peru and to the North of the line comes forth the Coca a navigable River which quickly renders himself on the North-side into the beginnings of the great River of the Amazones which as yet in these parts having his stream too rapid and violent hath not therefore at this place so convenient a navigation himself as other Rivers that enter into his large bed on the side of the Antarctique or South Pole The first whereof passing on as it were about three daies journeys from the City of Avila of the same Province of the Kixos renders himself in short while and under the name of Payamino into the great River on the South-side thereof and below the entrance of the Coca though the distance is not known nor set down But about eighteen leagues from the Town of Kito beyond the Andes of the great Cordelier is the mount Antezame on the South-side of the line from the foot of which the River of Napo coming forth and running amongst the Rocks without being navigable untill he come to a Port or Haven of the same name well nigh unto Archidona he becomes yet more easie to be navigated four leagues beneath that as well for the greatnesse of his Channell as for the lesse rapidnesse and violence of his stream and pursuing in this condition his way to great River he enters thereinto about thirty leagues only from Archidona But concerning the mouth of this River you may look the seventh Chapter of this Book unto which I will here adde that the foresaid Port of Napo where the Indians have an habitation is the best embarquing place for all those that from the Province of Kito would sail or go into the great Amazone And as to this pleasant fair and great enough River of Napo it hath this prerogative beyond others to rolle alongst with him a-amongst the sands of his current good store of Gold which the Natives of this Countrey gathering do therewith without much pains or trouble pay their tribute which yearly they owe to the Spaniards of that same Province a Province also that abounds every where else in all sorts of Fruites necessary for intertaining of the life the like whereunto may be said of it both for Fishing and Hunting or Chace CHAP. XV. Of the Agarique and the Putomaya HAving begun to shew you before the divers Havens or embarquing places by which the great and rich Province of Kyto may enter into the commerce of the great River of Amazone we will now follow the like way be the other Rivers that come from the North-side and give the like advantages to the rich Regions of the Popayan and of the Kingdom of new Granado whereof the first are the Aguarique and the Putomaya taking their beginnings in the Putomaya taking their beginnings in the great mountaines of the Cordelier both of

the imaginary Treasures of the fabulous rather than famous Lagad rado CHAP. XXIV Of the Province of Yoriman NEXT after the Province of Corosirare as you go down the great Amazone on the South-side is the Province of Yoriman being but of sixty leagues long but of such repute amongst the Indians of all these Countries by reason of the strength and valour of its Inhabitants than the Navy of the Portuguais themselves passing along did perceive it They are of a good stature of a fair body and well formed They are expert in all things they take themselves to especially in Armes and go all naked as well men as women They are also so numerous for multitude that never any saw at one time so many Barbarians together It was an infallible token of their great courage that they went and came as they did amidst the Armed Vessels and Ships of Warre of the Portuguais to traffique with them with extreme assurance of minde For whilest the Portuguais going up the great Amazone sail'd along by this Province every day there came to them above two hundred Canoes full of Women and Children with Fruits Fishes Meales and other such like Provision which they changed with the Portuguais for axes and knives whereof they have great esteem as all others Indians of the new world The Yorimans inhabite not only the main Land of this Province but fill also the great Iles that the great Amazone makes by sundry of his Armes stretched forth The first Village of this Warlike Nation is on the mouth of a Christalline River which must be strong and come very farre considering the force wherewith he pusheth the deep waters of the great Amazone But the notablest of their Habitations is the greatest of any that lie on the great Amazone containing more a good deal on the banke of that River than a good league and in every of its Houses four or five Familes and sometimes more whereby easily may be gathered the great number of the Inhabitants of this long Town whereof we spake also in the ninth Chapter of this Book It was in this place so abounding with all things that the Fleet of the Portuguais stay'd five or six daies at its return after it had gone up the River of the Amazones before with good successe as shall be afterwards related Not one of so numerous a people fled from his House for fear of their arrivall but the whole Fleet got freely from them all that they stood in need of and because the Navy was near an end of all its Provisions it got from their bounty five hundred Sacks of the Meale of Mandioqua which sufficed it for the whole rest of its Voyage The other Habitations also of this happy Province of Yoriman are not much inferiour to the former they are all along very frequent on the firm land but yet both mightier and more numerous in a great Iland about thirty leagues lower where it seemes the principall Forces are of this generous Nation generous I say both for its valour liberality and numerousnesse of men that inhabite it CHAP. XXV Of the Province of Surina and the Neighbouring Nations BUt to go from the Province of Yoriman to that of Surina we must in our passage visit the Nation of the Cusiguares that labour the fertile Plaines situated on the South-banke of the Amazone which in this place receives the plentifull waters of that great River that gives its own name to this pleasant Province This renowned River of Cusiguare both for the easinesse of its Navigation though somewhat hindered now and then by Rocks appearing in it here and there and for the happinesse of its Fishing no lesse abounding here than elsewhere will be no lesse considerable for the high stature and the great courage of his Nation of the Motuanes that cover the first Plaine that he waters who by testimony of the Indians that report it use also long Plates of fine Gold for Eare and Nose-Pendants whence it would seem that they are not farre from the rich Province of the Plata and of Potosy because even to travell up to their Countrey it takes full two moneths time But upon the same River and between the aforesaid two Nations the Curians and the Catoses enjoy likewise the happy fruitfulnesse of so many good Grounds and so many pleasant Rivers that on all sides enter into their principall River Now as the Province of Homague is celebrated amongst all those of the great Amazone for its fine works of Stufles and Cloathes of Cotton of so great variety and the Province of Corosirare for their excellent Pottery of Vessels of Earth so artificially Painted and fashioned so the Province of Surina is no lesse commendable for a delicate houshold-stuffe or Utensiles of a marvellous fine artifice It is on the South of the great River and to the East of the Cusiguares its Peoples being the Surines and the Coripunes Nations that are the most curious and expert of working in Wood of any in all America They make Seates and Formes in the fashion of Animals yet so fine and commodious for the ease of the body that nothing can be added to their industry They make also Javelots and Arrows with so much gentilenesse and elegancy that all other Nations seek after them And the like Images that they make to the life are so perfectly done in all points that our best Ingravers and Carvers could find no other occasion but to learn from them so that by exchange of so many singular workmanships of so sundry sorts they daily make their lives more happy by all necessary Commodities which on all sides come unto them from this rich traffique CHAP. XXVI Of the Province of Caribane FOr as much as the distances of all these Rivers and Provinces are just enough set down in the ninth Chapter of this Book we shall say only of this Province of Caribane that it lies between the Rio-negro and the great Amazone in extent of more than an hundred leagues on the banks of either of them Its Fields and Plaines are higher than that they are subject to the overflowings of these Rivers or of an equall height unto them yet fertile and abundant in all things The River of Bazurura which enters into that of the Amazones on the North-side makes here Lakes and Ilands very pleasant and the divers Nations of this great Province are no lesse considerable for the plenteousnesse and fertility of their Countrey than for the happy condition of their life Of these the Araguananes and the Mariguanes are the most Westerly and lye against the bankes of the Yoriman already mentioned The Pogoanes and the Caraganes are on the Basurura The Comanares possesse that point which the two Rivers for me at their meeting The Tuynamanes and the Comarurianes are on the side of Rio-negro and the others lesse renown'd possesse the Lands that are furthest off from the Amazone All these Peoples are valiant and use-skilfully the Bow and Arrow