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go|njcalo pk;arro q[ua]n|do] descubrio la canela 1 y muriero[n| 

 de ha[m]bre la mayor p[ar]te de los q[ue] co[n] el fuero[n] &quot; 

 (&quot;In the year 1546 [instead of 1542] Orellana sailed down this 

 river 2 over 1,000 leagues, and went to Spain; and having been 

 appointed governor he returned to this river, where he, with all his 

 companions, almost perished in sailing up the river, which in great 

 part is marshy ; and he had started from Peru with Gonzalo Pizarro, 

 when the latter discovered the province of cinnamon ; and most of 

 those who went with him died of hunger &quot;). 



Gonzalo Pizarro left Quito at the close of February, 1541, for the 

 &quot; pais de la canela.&quot; : On February 2, 1542, Orellana and his com 

 panions reached the Curaray, an affluent of the River Napo, and on 

 Sunday, February n, began the voyage down the river at present 

 called &quot; de las Amazonas.&quot; 



The latest geographical datum in the anonymous map is the legend 

 on the coast of the present Brazilian Guyana, which briefly relates 

 the fate of the Portuguese colonizing expedition led by Luis de Mello 

 in 1554: &quot; Ano ( !) de 1554. dia de S. Martin. 4 Se perdio. en esta 

 costa al est. ala boca del maranon. Luis de Mello. portugues co[n]. 

 600. ho[mlbres q[ue] lleuaua en. 6. naujos sin torm[ent]a sino q[ue] 

 surgiero[n] a la noche en. 7. bragas. y de noche baxo el agua y q[ue]- 

 daro[n]*en seco &quot; (&quot; In the year 1554, on St. Martin s day, Luiz de 

 Mello, a Portuguese, was lost on this coast, westward of the mouth 

 of the Maranon, and with him 600 men in six vessels ; [they were 

 lost] not in a gale, but on account of anchoring at night in seven 

 * bragas (each of 2.20 m. of water), which on the following night 

 ebbed, leaving them on dry land &quot;). 5 



1 &quot; El Pais de la Canela.&quot; For D. Marcos Jimenez de la Espada ; in &quot; El 

 Centenario.&quot; Revista Ilustrada, etc. T. III. Madrid, 1892, pp. 437-457 

 (illustr.). 



2 Carbaxal, op. cit., p. 55, &quot;. . . . y nos dijo como entre ellos habian dos 

 mujeres blancas, y que otros tenian indias y hijos en ellas : estos son los que 

 se perdieron de Diego de Ordas . . . .&quot; (&quot;And told us that there were two 

 white women among them (Indians) ; and that others (Spaniards) have 

 Indian women and children with them. They are those who were lost on 

 the Ordaz expedition&quot;) ; cf. Castellanos, 1. c., where he relates the shipwreck 

 of J. Cornejo. 



3 Another version of the &quot; El-Dorado.&quot; 



4 Probably November n. 



5 For further details, see F. A. de Varnhagen (Vizconde de Porto Seguro), 

 &quot; Historia Geral do Brasil.&quot; Second ed. (Wien, s. d.), tomo I, p. 261; and 

 cf. also &quot; Tractado Historico,&quot; etc., by Gabriel Soares de Souza, whose 

 account, in part, differs from that of the former. 



