36o A VOYAGE TO Book VI. 



only separated from its capital, the city of Borja, by 

 the Pongo (ie Manceriche. In this country of Jaen 

 de Bracamoros are several small villages : 



The inhabitants of which are mostly Indians, with 

 some Mestizos, but no great number of either. 



Though Jaen stands on the bank of the river 

 Chinchipe, and so near the Maranon, yet the latter 

 is not navigable up to it; so that those who are to 

 embark on it go by land from Jaen to Chuchunga, a 

 small place on another river of that name, and in 25 

 deg 29 min. lat. whence they fall down into the Ma- 

 ranon. This town, which may be accounted the port 

 for Jiien, lies four days journey from the city, which 

 is the method of calculating the distances here ; the 

 difRcullics of the road increasing them far beyond 

 what they are in reality, that not seldom that which 

 on good ground might be travelled in an hour or two, 

 takes up a half and sometimes a whole day. 



Tpie climate of Jaen, and the satne may be said of 

 the whole jurisdiction of this government, is like that 

 of Quixos, except that the rains are neither so lasting 

 nor violent ; and, like that of Macas, it enjoys some 

 interval of summer; when the heats, tempests, and 

 all the inconveniences of winter, abate. The soil is 

 fruitful in all the grains and products agreeable to its 

 temperature. The country is full of wild trees, par- 

 ticularly the cacao, the fruit of which, besides the ex- 

 uberance of it on all the trees, is equal to that cul- 

 tivated in plantations ; but is of little use here for 

 want of consumption: and tljc carriage of it to distant 

 parts would be attended with such charges, as to pre- 

 judice 



