they call Pong*, one of the moft daungerous in all the 

 vvorlde ; for the river being there ftraightned, and for. 

 ced betwixt two high ftecpe rockes : the water falles di* 

 redly downe with fo great a violence, thatcomming 

 fteepedowne, itcaufethfuchaboyling, asitfeemeth 

 impofliblc to pafle it without drowning : yet the cou- 

 rage of men durft attempt to pafle it, for the defire of 

 this renowmed Dorado : they flipt do wne from the top 

 tothebottome, thrufton with the violence and cur 

 rant of the floud, holding themfelves faft in their Ca 

 noes or barkes : and although in falling they were tur 

 ned topfie turvic , and both they and their Canoes 

 plunged into the deepe, yet by their care and induftry 

 they recovered themfelves againc ; and in this fort the 

 whole army efcaped, except fome few that were drow 

 ned . And that which is more admirable, they carried 

 themfelves fo cunningly, that they ncyther loft their 

 powldcr nor munition. In their returne (having fuflfe- 

 red many troubles and daungcrs) they wereforced, in 

 the end , to pafle backe that fame way ) mounting by 

 one of thofehigh Rockes>fticking their poniards in the 

 rocke. 



Captaine Ptter<fOrfi4arc\2fa an other entry by the 

 fame river, who being dead in the fame voyage, and 

 thcfouldiersmutined; other Captaines followed the 

 cntcrprifc,by an armc that comes into the north fea. A 

 religious man of our company told vs, that being then 

 a fccular man, he was prefent in a manner at all thaten- 

 terprifc, and that the tides did flowealmoft a hundred 

 leagues vp the river , and whereas it enters into the fea, 

 (the which is vnder the Line,or very neere) it hath 70. 

 leagues breadth at the mouth of it, a matter incredible; 

 and which cxceedcs the breadth of the Mediterranean 



