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Geographer to the king of Portugal ; which was published in the year 

 1649: and is to be found in Melch. Thevenot's collection of travels. 

 It is unfortunately upon a small scale ; and of course not sufficiently 

 explicit. The river Caorica is the western branch of the Hdb, more 

 accurately delineated and placed in the map of these countries, inserted 

 in Lindschot's travels. The next river is the Camelo, or Haur : then 

 comes a river without name to the east of Cape Arubah> which really 

 exists according to our modern surveys. This Cape is styled there, 

 the point of islands, and the bay to the west of it, the harbour of 

 islands, with a river at the bottom of it. Between this and Cape 

 Guadel, our author has placed three rivers, Palamate, or Palamen, 

 Calamete or Calamen, and near Cape Guadel, the river of Noutagues, 

 from a tribe of that name, called Naytagues by Manuel de Faria, and 

 Noytagues or Noytag by Father Monserrat : and this river by both, is 

 placed to the N. E. of Cape Guadel, not very far from it, and seem- 

 ingly a little to the eastward of the eastern bay. I suspect a trans- 

 position with regard to the rivers Calamen and Palamen : we have 

 ascertained the situation of the river of the Noytagues ; and there is 

 no doubt, but, that the Calamen or Calama river is the nearest to 

 Cape Aruhdh : the Palamen of course will fall in a little to the west- 

 ward of Cape Passence ; and will answer to the place called Balomus 

 by Nearchus ; and is probably the river Ponamus of Pliny, for Pola- 

 mus. It was, says he, a navigable river on the confines of the Pandce. 

 This tribe is mentioned by Manuel de Faria, under the name of Abindos 

 or Obandos and they were the friends and allies of the Noytags. In 

 another place Monserrat either calls them, or a tribe of them, Heytag ; 

 and the pilot, whom Nearchus found at Mosarna in their country and 

 who was called Hydrakes, was perhaps a Heytag. The additional R 

 is no uncommon circumstance : thus instead of Teiz or Teasa, Lt. Porter 

 has Tearsa. 



I think the Pandce, or Bandce of Pliny, are nearer to the true 

 pronunciation ; and that the Portuguese were misled by the affinity 

 with Abindos, a river to the east of Cape Mu'dan, which Monserrat 

 calls in Latin Ab Indorum rivus, or the Indian Hdb. 



There is a tribe called Urbi by Pliny, upon the river Borru ; but it is 

 probable, that both the river and the tribe on its banks, went by the 

 same name Urbi. Arbah and A'mbdk. To the east of it was Pasira. a 



