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the Rio de la Coca ; it runs E., passing near the city of Baeza. The 

 other rises on the S. slope at a little beyond i° N. and is called the 

 Rio Napo ; it unites with the Rio de la Coca some 50 leagues below 

 its source, and runs E. [Near the junction of these two, Orellana 

 embarked at the order of Gonzalo Pizarro in the year 1541 in a 

 brigantine to explore the country and search for food for the army, 

 from which fact this great river took the name of Rio de Orellana.] 

 After their junction some 70 leagues downstream they unite with 

 the Rio del Oro, which forms a huge stream, broad and deep, which 

 is the Orinoco ; its waters run steadily E. Along this downward 

 course there are many provinces and settlements of Indians ; they 

 are heathen idolaters, with differences in their clothing and cere- 

 monies. Some, by name Ycaguates, are naked cannibal savages, 

 although their country produces abundance of meat in the form of 

 deer, tapirs, and other animals, and many varieties of game and fish, 

 both those living in the rivers and those which come up from the 

 Atlantic. There are other tribes : those named Omaguas, people who 

 wear clothing, ingenious and civilized; [others named] Buaques ; 

 [and others] Abalios ; [others] Micuaras ; [and others] Quilibinas ; 

 and [others] Apalaques, with many other tribes, whose names are 

 unknown, for they are numerous and the country very extensive. 

 Some go naked, others make clothing out of the bark of trees, others 

 out of coarse cotton ; some worship a tree, others a rock, others the 

 river, and others make gods out of animals. The weapons they use 

 are lances and darts of palm wood and small shields made of wood 

 or in some cases out of raw tapir hide. They war with each other 

 to get victims for cannibal feasts, or to deprive their enemies of their 

 lands and their women. 



1087. Between this river and the Rio Purumayu there is an island 

 of firm ground which is 30 leagues across at its widest point. These 

 two rivers unite over 270 leagues below the Cordillera, and at the 

 end of this island above the junction point there is a very large 

 province stretching from one river to the other and named Aricana ; 

 the natives wear clothing and are very particular in having their 

 cotton cloth painted with a brush ; the Indian women wear for foot 

 covering small half boots and half hose made of cotton, worked up 

 with great skill and blacked with a sort of poHsh so that from a 

 distance it looks like leather ; they wear their hair caught up with 

 red cotton ribbons, very neatly ; they have their persons adorned 

 with jewels, gold, and featherwork. Their houses are very carefully 

 built ; their dishes are very neatly fashioned out of clay with much 

 decoration. They are a very warlike people ; they always travel on 



