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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

thirty leagues the mouth of which River is to the North of the Amazone From the Coruris to the Bosphore of the Amazone twenty four leagues This strange narrownesse hath two degrees and fourty minutes of Southern latitude and three hundred twenty eight degrees and fifty minutes in longitude From the Bosphore to the Tapayse fourty leagues the mouth of which River is on the South of the great Amazone From the Tapayse to the Coropatube fourty leagues the mouth of which River is on the North-side of the great Amazone From the Coropatube to the Fort of the Destierro fifty four leagues which Forteresse is also on the North-side of the great River From the foresaid Fort to the Ginipape six leagues the mouth of which River is on the North-side also having two degrees of Southern latitude and three hundred thirty one degrees and fifty minutes of longitude And about two leagues under this Ginipape towards the Sea the great River of the Amazones begins to open himself by little and little towards his great Mouth or place of discharge into the Sea From the Ginipape to the Paranaybe ten leagues the mouth of which River is on the South side of the Amazone From the Paranaybe to the Pacache fourty leagues the mouth of which is also on the South of the Amazone From the Pacache to Commuta fourty leagues This place is also on the South-side of the Amazone From Commuta to Para thirty leagues This Town is also on the South-banke of the great mouth of the Amazone having one degree and thirty minutes of South latitude From Para to the I le of the Sun fourteen leagues This I le is also near to the same South-banke And from Para to Zaparara fourty leagues which is a Cape on the extremity of the South-banke of the great River having thirty five minutes of South latitude and three hundred thirty seven degrees and ten minutes of longitude And so the course of the great River of the Amazones is from Rio-negro to Zaparara of four hundred eighty eight leagues and his whole length is one thousand two hundred seventy six leagues as have been set down in the preceeding Chapters Yet to describe his North-banke of his great Mouth also somewhat more we shall thus set it down From the Ginipape to Corupa thirty leagues this place being on the North-side of the River From Corupa to the Cape of the North the distance is not well known and this Cape is on the extremity of the North-banke of the great River having fourty five minutes of North latitude and three hundred thirty three degrees and fifty minutes of longitude CHAP. XI Of the bredth and of the Iles of this great River IF the great Amazone is wonderfull for its length it is no lesse admirable for its bredth and its Ilands The one is alwaies of two three or four leagues broad but never so little as of one only the others are innumerable and so great that their compasse is of five or of ten and sometimes of twenty yea and more than of an hundred leagues sometimes as is that of the Topinambes There is a great number also of very little ones in which the Natives make their Burial-places having their Dwellings in the others that are greater But the greater part of these Iles and sometimes the greatest of them are in part at least drowned and overflowed every year by the inundations of that River but so fatned thereafter with the mud that he scatters over them behind him that they are thereby exceeding fertile yielding every year without any intermissions of rest their ordinary crops which are of Maze Yoca and Mandioca which yeeld the common food for all America where it is in great abundance all along the great River of the Amazone But to help the inconveniences of overflowing they make under-ground Cellers Granaries or Caves well cover'd where they keep their Maze which is their wheat without impairement and the Yoca which is a root whereof they make their Casabe which is the ordinary and lesse finish bread of all Brasile and of all that New-world Returning then to the wonders of the large Channell of this great River of the Amazones we shall end this Chapter in telling you that he keeps alwaies about the same bredth that we have before set down untill by an enlarging him-self and opening into eighty four Spanish leagues of bredth he comes to lose his name and waters in the great Atlantique Ocean between the two Capes of the North and of Zaparara this being in Brasile and the other in Guiana Provinces of America CHAP. XII Of its Depth and Navigation SEeing the great and wonderfull Channell of the renowned River of the Amazones as a certain long and vast Sea of sweet waters receives so many great broad and deep Rivers we must not think it strange if the depth of his bed equall oftentimes the Abysses of the Ocean its self This is for the most part from his beginning unto Rio-negro of eight twelve and of twenty fathomes and from Rio-negro downwards to the Ocean of thirty fourty and sometimes without ground and unfathomable according to the relations of all that have observed it But this marvellous advantage his depth hath beyond others singular that for the most part they are alike along the bankes and sides as they are in the midst of this large Channell of the great Amazone whence it follows that his Navigablenesse and the fitnesse for commerce of this great River is open and sufficient enough for the greatest Navies of the greatest number of the greatest burthen which may not only sail up all along him to his first rise in order of Battell and ready for fight but also put to Land easily and apply to the shore without any fear of rocks or sands And Providence having purposed every way to render all these wonders yet more considerable hath led the waters of this famous River alwaies from West to East and near unto the Aequator to the end that as Navale Armies might easily come down from his very source to his mouth carryed by the sweet force and strength of his current and streame so they might also as easily go up from his mouth and first entrance unto his very source against the stream of his deep waters by a favourable and continual winde which blows there in a good gale perpetually and without ceasing from East to West either all the day long or at lest three or four hours of it together because of the Diurnall motion either of the Earth or of the first moveable Heaven or Orbe so that on the North-sea from the Canary Ilands to those of the Canibal's and on the South-sea from New-Spain unto the Philippine Iles as also all along the coast of Paria and Guiana as one goes from the North-cape to the Cape of Sailes the same East-wind is alwaies found to be on wing and in his reign without ceasing But as in those other parts

the distance of the mountains of Pulcan and Guanama where the Sources of this great River are in a streight line unto Zaparara which is the Easterliest Cape at which he ends his course is but of six hundred fourty leagues of the same sort according to my Geographick Tables or Mappes and the methods of the eighth Book of my Geometricall Theorems But because this distance in a streight line appears to me to be yet too farre different from the foresaid length of one thousand two hundred seventy six leagues I could easily perswade my self that either the Southern longitude of America were greater or that the leagues of this Spanish Father Jesuit should be no other but Celtiberian-Spanish leagues or Biscay leagues like unto our French-sea-leagues the which amounting but to twenty for every degree of a great circle would give us seven hundred thirty two leagues in a right or streight line for the same distance between the Sources of the great River of the Amazones and the extremity of his mouth or upshutting CHAP. IX Of the Longitudes Latitudes and Measures observed in this great River IN the design we have to set down in this place and all along the distances and their latitudes which the Spaniards have observed an one thousand six hundred thirty nine alongst the River of the Amazones reported by D' Acogna aforesaid delegated by King Philip the fourth to this charge we have also resolved to adde the longitudes which we have adjusted as much as is possible from confusion and uncertainty and this as well for the curiosity of such as love Geography as for the help of these Authours that would make new Cartes of these places But going back to the end of the 7th Chapter we shall continue the course of this great River in this manner From the mouth of Napo which is on the South of the great Amazone to Anete are fourty seven leagues This place of Anete is yet under the line and on the South-side of the great River From Anete to the Agarico are eighteen leagues The mouth of this River is on the North-side of the Amazone and under the line also From the Agarico to Chevela twenty leagues The mouth of this River is also on the North of Amazone and begins to decline a little from the line towards the South From the Chevelu to the Curaray fourty leagues The mouth of this River is on the South of the Amazone and under the second degree of Southern latitude From the Curaray to the Maragnon eighty leagues The mouth of this River is on the South of the Amazone having four degrees of Southern latitude and three hundred seven degrees and fifty minutes of longitude From the Maragnon to the beginning of the Province of Homague sixty leagues All this Province consists in great Ilands From the foresaid beginning of Homague to a certain great habitation of the same one hundred and nineteen leagues This place is in an I le on the South-side of the body of Amazone having three degrees of Southern latitude and three hundred twelve degrees and fifty five minutes of longitude From this Habitation to the Putumaya seventeen leagues The mouth of this River is on the North-side of the great Amazone From the Putumaya to Lyetau fifty leagues The mouth of this River is on the South-side of Amazone and hath three degrees thirty minutes of Southern latitude From Lyetau to the end of the Province of Homague fourteen leagues In this place there is a great and puissant Habitation in an I le From the end of Homague to the Amarumaya twenty five leagues The mouth of this River is on the South-side of Amazone having five degrees of Southern latitude and three hundred fifteen degrees and fifty minutes of longitude From the Amarumaya to the Village of the gold twenty eight leagues This place is on the South-bank of the Channell of the great Amazone From the Village of the gold to the Yopura fourteen leagues The mouth of this River is on the North-side of Amazone and hath three degrees of Southern latitude From the Yopura to Tapy four leagues The mouth of this River is on the South-side of Amazone From the Tapy to the Catua twenty five leagues The mouth of this River is on the South side of Amazone and towards the Green Lake formed into that condition by the great Amazone From the Catua and the Green Lake to the first mouth of the Araganatuba six leagues This is on the North-side of the Amazone From the fist mouth to the second of the Araganatuba sixteen leagues on the North-side of Amazone also From the second mouth of the Araganatuba to the end of the Province of Corosirare twenty two leagues All this Province is on the South of the great River From the end of Corosirare to the beginning of the Province of Yoriman two leagues On the South-side of Amazone From the beginning of Yoriman to a great and very long Habitation twenty three leagues on the South of the River to four degrees of that latitude and three hundred nineteen degrees and thirty minutes of longitude From this long Habitation to the I le Yoriman thirty two leagues on the South-bank side of the Amazone From this I le to the end of the Province of Yoriman ten leagues On the South-side of the Amazone From the end of Yoriman to the Cusiguare two leagues The mouth of this River is also on the South of the Amazone From the Cusiguare to the Basurure thirty two leagues The mouth of this River is on the North-side of the Amazone and hath four degrees thirty minutes of Southern latitude From the Basurure to the Rio-negro or Black River thirty leagues The mouth of this River is also on the North-side of the Amazone having four degrees of Southern latitude and three hundred twenty two degrees and twenty minutes of longitude And thus the course of the great River of the Amazones into Rio-negro or the Black River is of seven hundred eighty eight leagues according to the preceding Measures CHAP. X. The rest of the Longitudes Latitudes and Measures observed unto the Atlantique Sea FOllowing the same design of the Chapter preceding wherein we made stay till we came to the mouth of Rio-negro where he enters into the great River of the Amazones we shall in this Chapter make an end thereof pursuing the Amazones course into the great Ocean its self From Rio-negro then unto the Madera are four leagues the mouth of this River being on the South of the Amazone From the Madera to the beginning of the I le of Topinamba twenty eight leagues This great I le is in the River of the Amazones towards the South-side From the beginning to the end of this I le sixty two leagues In this place is a great and puissant Habitation of the Topinambians having three degrees of Southern latitude and three hundred twenty seven degrees thirty minutes of longitude From the end of Topinamba to the Coruris

They had from the year One thousand six hundred thirty eight Knives and Axes and other Instruments of Iron after the fashion of Europe which they gave out to have bought from Indians their Neighbours that were nearer than they to the Sea and these again from certain persons that were white of countenance and cloathed like the Portuguais and armed with Sword and Musket that dwelt upon the Atlantique Sea which have been without doubt either Hollanders or English who have both sailed into the Orenoc and dwelt for some time in the Coasts of Guyana but were at length hostilely chased from thence by the Savages as also all the French were an One thousand six hundred fifty four from the I le of Cayene in the main Land and on the same side of the Sea of the North which is not above two hundred leagues at the most from Rio-negro but reckoning in a streight line and by the shortest distance But because nature hath not offered in all the Realm of the great Amazone a more favourable situation than on the point of the Comanares for setling of a Colony of the most considerable ones of any in the world and which cannot fail one day to be the Seat of an Empire most flourishing and of great richesse in Trade we shall therewith finish this Chapter in telling you That the Land of it is right upon the bankes of these two great Rivers that it is also mounted above the height of ordinary inundations that the surface of it is plain sweet and not shrubby that the Neighbouring Fields abound in graines for necessary Provisions and in good pasturage for nourishing of Cattle that Quarries of an excellent Stone for Building and easie to be cut and hewn are as near it as Woods and Trees of a marvellous greatnesse and height for the conveniency of Buildings and Houses that the distance of the great Amazone from the Rio-negro is not so great but the fortifications may conveniently and regularly be drawn along on the Land-side and that the Foussies of these fortifications and this wall being well ordered may easily be made deep enough and themselves fill'd by the debordments of the one or of the other River at pleasure CHAP. XXVII Of Rio-negro and of the Province of Camsuara FOllowing the North-side of the great River of the Amazones Rio-negro incontinent presents its self next after the Province of Caribane His bredth and depth give him the prerogative to be thought the fairest and mightiest River of all that enter into the great Amazone whose mouth being wide a great league and an half hath four degrees of South latitude and three hundred twenty two degrees and twenty minutes of longitude and seven hundred eighty eight leagues of distance from the Sources of the great Amazone The Amazones course is here towards the North-east and that of Rio-negro right East where he enters into the other with such grandure and majesty that he keeps his waters distinct and separate from the others and keeps half of the whole channell to himself for the space of twelve leagues before the great River though here all united into one great bed to receive him can overcome the distinctnesse of his waters with all the force that he hath The Spaniards first and after them the Portugall's call'd it Rio-negro because at his mouth as often also in his channell his waters appear very black because indeed they are very clear and without any colour but very deep The Natives also name it for the same reason Coriguacure that is the Black River But as Rio-negro is the great Caketa of the sixteenth Chaper of our Book we shall say no more of it here nor stay again upon the obscurities of Father D' Acogna which we have there briefly unfolded but passe on to the recitall of the Nations that inhabite its bankes and tell you That the Province of Camsuare is the first that presents its self having on its South Rio-negro on its East the great Amazone and on its North the great Province of Guyane All the Plaines of these Countries are mounted like those of Caribana and not subject to the ordinary overflowings covered with infinite Peoples and aboundant in all things especially of Trees of a prodigious height and thicknesse But amongst the rich Nations of this fertile Province of Camsuare those of the Aguares of the Agaypes of the Jamnes and of the Carupatabes are not the least considerable without relating the Guaranacasanes which make a Province on the beginning of the River of Orenoc as he comes out of the great Caketa See the sixteenth Chapter to make the knowledge of these things lesse confused and imperfect than they are in Historians and Geographers who treat of them either too diffusedly in great Books or too lightly in little Tractates seeing also it becomes daily more certain by new and reiterated experiences CHAP. XXVIII Of the Province of Cayane and of the Nations Neighbouring BUt going now to the South-side of the great River of the Amazones again we shall find to the East and following that of Surina the Province of Cayane through which the great and long River of the Madera passeth and renders it self into the great Amazone And because this River of the Madera which was so called by the Spaniards because of the great number of Trees which it drew alongst with it into its mouth is one of the principall Rivers of America you shall find the distances and measures and other circumstances that concern it in the tenth and eighteenth Chapters of this Book Now the Nations that Province great enough contains within its extent whether lying alongst the great Amazone or in going up the great River of the Madera which the Natives call also Cayane are no lesse happy for the fertility of their fair Fields and pleasant Rivulets than other Peoples of all these fertile Countries are They are of no lesse courage for Warre not lesse expert in Fights and handling of Armes they have also the like industry in their handy-works that serve to make their happinesse of life the more accomplished by the exchange of them with such commodities as they stand in need of and they keep likewise in their conduct and Government of affairs Laws and Customes like unto those that all other Provinces of the Realm of the Amazone do But of all these infinite Peoples that cover so many considerable Plaines and Fields the Cayanes and the Anamares are the most renown'd and next to these the Curares and the Goarinumes and after them the Abacares and the Oragunagues and lastly the Sabucares and the Urubingues in going down the great Amazone which yet are the most esteem'd for their curious finenesse of working and making house Utensiles But the remotest of all in going down the great Amazone and amongst these the best known are the Maraques and the Oregates and towards the South the Guaranaques and others without number which undoubtedly border upon the great Lake of