428 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SUKVEY. 



1C98. ACUNA, CRISTOVAL D', ACARETE, GRILLET, and BECHAMEL. Voyages | and | Dis- 

 coveries | in j South- America. | The First up the River of Amazons to | Quito 

 in Peru, and back again to Brazil, | perform'd at the Command of the King j 

 of Spain. | By Christopher d'Acvgna. | The Second up the River of Plata, 

 and | thence by Land to the Mines of Potosi. | By Mons. Acarete [du Bis- 

 cay]. | The Third from Cayenne into Guiana, in search | of the Lake of Parima, 

 reputed the richest | Place in the World. | By M. [Jean] Grillet and [Francis] 

 Bechamel. | | Done into English from the Originals, being the on- | ly Ac- 

 counts of those Parts hitherto extant. | | The whole illustrated with Notes 

 and Maps. | | London, | Printed for S. Buckley at the Dolphin over against | 

 St. Dunstau's Church in Fleetstreet. 1698. 8. pp. i-viii; [Pt. i], pp. 1-190, 

 map ; [Pt. ii], 1. 1, pp. 1-79, map ; [Pt. iii], 11. 2, pp. 1-68. 



Parts ii and iii have each a full title-page, and each part is separately paged. 



[Pt. i.] A Relation of the Great River | of Amazons in South-America. | 

 Containing all the Particulars of | Father Christopher d'Acugna's Voy- | age, 

 made at the Command of the | King of Spain. | Taken from the Spanish Origi- 

 nal of the | said Chr. d'Acugna, Jesuit. [Half-title.] 



Chap. xxv. The great Plenty of Fish in this Elver, and which is the best sort of them, pp. 

 61, 62. Consists almost exclusively of an accountof the "Pege Buey" [Manatus americanus], 

 describing its appearance, how it is taken by the Indians, and extolling its flesh as an article 

 of food. A note at the end refers to the trade in its flesh with the "Antilles or Antego-Isl- 

 ands," to which it is extensively exported. * 



The original of this "Relation" (seeop.cif., Introd., pp. iv, v) is said to have been published at 

 Madrid in 1641 (4) with the title "Nuevo descumbrimiento del gran Rio de las Amazonas," 

 but immediately suppressed by Philip IV., so that copies of it quickly became exceedingly 

 scarce. 



[Pt. iii.] A | Journal | of the | Travels | of | John Grillet, | and Francis Be- 

 chamel | into | Gviana, j In the Year, 1674. | In | Order to Discover the Great 

 Lake | of Parima and the many Cities | said to be situated on its Banks, and | 

 reputed the Richest in the World. | | London: | Printed for Samuel Buck- 

 ley, 1698. 



A "kind of Fish, which they catch in the Rivers with a sort of Harping Iron" is alluded 

 to at p. 63 as being the basis of a profitable trade to the Ajatego Islands. It is evidently the 

 Manatee. [143.] 



1699. " DOOREGEEST, E. A. VAN, en C. A. POSJAGER. Den Rijper Zee-postil, bestaande 



in xxii predication, toegepast op den Zeevaert. Tot onderwijzinge vermaninge 

 en vertroostiuge in de ware godsaligheyt voor allerlei Zeevarendc lieden, dog 

 voornamentlijk voor diegene, welke op den Haring en Walvischvangst uitgaen. 

 Mitsgaders nog en korte beschryvinghe aengaende de opkomst van Holland, 

 waer in 't bezonder ook gehandelt word van 't Eyland met zijn dorpeu, dog 

 voornamentlijck rakende de eerste oorspronck en ware gelegenheyt der Haring 

 en Walvischvangst. 't Amsterdam, bij Jac. van Nieuweveen, 1699. gr. 8." 



"Ziealdaar: bl. 343-360." 



Not seen ; title and reference from Bosgoed, op. cit., p. 235, no. 3446. [144.] 



1700. ANON. Description de la piece d'ambregris que la chambre d' Amsterdam a 



recuedes Indes orientales pesant 182 livres; avec un petit traitede son origine 

 6 de sa vertu par Nicolas Chevalier a Amsterdam chez Fauteur. 1700. in 4. 

 p. 67. <Philo8. Trans. Lond., xxii, no. 263 [1700J, pp. 573, 574. 



Review of the work. See next title. [145. ] 



1700. "CHEVALIER, NICOL. Description de la piece d'Ambre gris que la chambro 

 d' Amsterdam a regue des Indes orientales pesaiit 182 livres. Avec un petit 

 traite" de son origine et de sa vertu. (Mit 5 Kpfrtaf. u. Abdruk einer Schau- 

 mtinze.) in-4. Amsterdam 1700, chez Pauteur." 



Not seen ; title from Carus and Engelmann. [146. ] 



1702. "ENGELBRECHT, . Diss. duae de pisce, lonae deglutitore. Lips., 1702. 8." 

 Not seen ; title from Donndorff, Zool Beytr., i, 1792, p. 776. [147. | 



