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been partly explored by the licentiate Don Pedro Valverde, president of the May- 

 nas missions*. A wish to tranquillize his flock, and to recover a few strayed sheep, 

 had impelled him to engage valorously in an enterprise which did not present any 

 idea to the imagination, beside that of the risk of becoming the vidlim of the bar- 

 barity of the ferocious Panos. Having ascended as high as Sarayacu, experience 

 demonstrated to him the extent of what can be eflfefted by a truly apostolical 

 spirit. The savages humbled themselves in his presence ; and, being desirous not 

 to quit their ancient abodes, beseeched him to supply them with some one who 

 should instruct them in their religious duties j thus expiating the death of the Fran- 

 ciscan monks, the particulars of which were given in the historical details relative 

 to the missions of Caxamarquilla. 



To gratify the wishes of the Panos Indians, the virtuous guardian of Ocopa sti- 

 mulated father Girbal to set out with all promptitude, promising him his most 

 cordial co-operation. His deeds proved the sincerity of his words, since, in con- 

 cert with the generous Don Juan de Salinas, he afforded to the latter all the suc- 

 cour he could possibly administer. Having supplied him with agricultural Imple- 

 ments, and whatever beside was necessary to distribute among the Indians, father 

 Sobreviela took leave of his kind hosts, and on the above-mentioned 26th of Au- 

 gust, at ten at night, set out on his return. In ascending the Huallaga, the canoes 

 navigated at the rate of three-fourths of a league an hour. The voyage was In 

 every part prosperous, and was concluded on the 27th of September, at the con- 

 fluence of the inver Monzon, and town of Playa-Grande, the port of embarkation. 

 From Playa-Grande he travelled, by the broken ground of Monzon, to Chico- 

 playa, to execute an order of the supreme governor ; and taking the new road 

 constru£ted by Don Juan Bezares-j-, entered Chavin de Pariaca on the 9th -of Oc- 

 tober. Thence direfting his course to Tarma, he passed, on the 13th, the source 

 of the Maranon, which is the lake Yauricocha, situated In the plains of Bombon, 

 in 10 degrees 14 minutes : its length is about a league, and its breadth the one half. 

 The Maranon, or Tunguragua J, where It originates, has an extension of twenty- 

 five yards, with a proportionate depth, at the seasons when the waters diminish. 



* In the prefatory matter, we mentioned that father RiAer, a Jesuit belonging to the Maynas conver- 

 sions, had ascended by the Ucayali. Not any one would undertake this afterwards, until it' was at- 

 tempted by the above-mentioned president, whose MS. relation is lodged in the archives of our Society. 



f See p. 344, under the head of Topography. — ^An itinerary from Chavin de Pariaca to Chicoplaya, 

 will be given in the sequel. 



I Those who will not allow that the river here cited is the real trunk of the Maranon, bestow on it 

 the latter name. 



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