Sj. 



An Appendix, 



CONTAINING 



Partly a farther profecution of the Defcriptions of fome Provinces 

 already treated of in the foregoing Book, partly an Account of 



. fome other Difcoveries than what have hitherto been deliver'd in 

 any Defcription of the J\^ E W W 0%^L c D. 



CHAP. I. 

 Rio de la Plata. 



He River Ve fa Plata, by the Natives call'd Paranagua^u, is 

 next to the River of the Ama^ones,thc greateft in the World, 

 and falls into the Northern Ocean between the Capes An- 

 tonio and Maria, lying thirty Leagues one from another : 

 It receives from Eaft and Weft divers Rivers as far as the 

 Lake Xarays, lying three hundred Leagues up in the Coun- 

 try from the Mouth of La flat a. Alfo into the foremen- 

 tion'dLake fallfeveral Streams, which fpring out of the 

 Peruvian Mountains Andes. 



Thefirft that Sall'd into this great River, Anno 1 5 1 5. to an Ifland lying in the 

 middle of it, was John Dias de Solti, who raflily going afliore, was kill'd and 

 eaten, together with feveral Portuguefes. 



Eleven years after this Accident, Sebaftian Gabottm fet Sail from Spam to go to the 

 Spicy Iflands through the Straights of Magellan, but was fore'd, for want of Provi- 

 lions, and the unwillingnefs of his Seamen, to put into the River La Plata . in 

 which being advane'd thirty Leagues, he Anchor'd near an Ifland, which he call'd 

 St. Gabriel : from whence going feven farther, he difcover'd a Stream which fell 

 iruo La Plata. This River he call'd St. Salvador, and caft up a Fort at the Mouth 

 of it, where an Inlet afforded a convenient Harbor for Shipping; he found the 

 River La Plata to be generally ten Leagues broad, and full of Ides ; and to the Weft- 

 ward of it, the River Zaracaranna, inhabited on the South fide by a fubtil People 

 call'd Viagnitas. At the place where Zaracaranna difembogues into La Plata he built 

 a Caftle, and calling the fame CafteUo di Santo Spirito y went up farther, leaving on 

 the Weft fide the People Tenbues, Mequaretas, Mepenes, and A'tgais ; to the Eaftward, 

 the Quiloacas zadSantana, and (truck up out of the River La Plata, North-Eaft into 



the 



Seba/iicH 

 Gubtttm his 

 Expedition. 



