388 A VOYAGE TO Book VI. 



nora de las Nieves, tlie capital of the Yiirimagua na- 

 tion ; and having visited the rest under his charge, to 

 the number of forty-one, all large and populous, he 

 went, on other public affairs, to the town of Laguna, 

 the capital of all the missions on the Maranon, where 

 the superior resided ; and afterwards repaired to the 

 city of Lima, in order to communicate to the count 

 de JMoncloa, at that time viceroy, a full account of 

 all those countries. This last journey he undertook 

 l)y the way of the rivers Guallaga,Patanapura, Moyo- 

 bamba, Chachapoyas, Caxamarca, Truxillo, and 

 Lima. 



The aifairs which brought this indefatigable mis- 

 sionary to Lima, where he was received with great 

 honour, beingfinished ; Father Fritz, in August 1693, 

 set out, on his return to his missions, by the way of 

 the city of Jaen de Bracamoros, Avith a view of re- 

 connoitring the course and situation of the rivers 

 which, from those southern parts, fall into the Ma- 

 ranon. By the help of these additional lights, he drew 

 a map of that river, Mdiich was engraved at Quito, in 

 the year 1707 : and though it had not all the accu- 

 racy which could bedesired, the father being without 

 instruments for observing the latitudes and longitudes 

 of the chief places, taking the course of the rivers, 

 and determining the distances; yet it was received 

 withverygreatapplause, as being the only one in which 

 were laid down the source and direction of all tiie 

 rivers which join the Maranon, and the whole course 

 of the latter till its junction with the ocean. 



IIL Account of the Conquest, Ilfissions, and Nations, 

 establiahed on the Maranon. 



The discovery of this famous river, and thesurvey 

 of the adjacent countries and nations,, was followed by 

 the conquest of the nations who inhabited its banks 



and 



