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APPENDIX. 



latter having in its favour both history, tradition, and report, wc cannot refuse 

 our assent to its superiority over the Beni. 



The Apurimac has its source in the wild heaths of Condoroma, in the province 

 ofTinta, in 16 degrees of south latitude. It flows impetuously to the E. toward 

 the Cordillera of Vilcanota, to the distance of three leagues, when, suddenly 

 shifting its course to the W., it separates that Cordillera from the province of 

 Chumbibilcas. It now enters the provinces of Aimaraes and Cotabambas, and 

 diredts its rapid course to the N. W., leaving to the E. the province of Cusco. In 

 passing through that of Abancay, it declines to the N. E., by which direftion it 

 forms, from its primitive source, an arc that receives so many torrents on either 

 side, as to prevent it from being longer fordable. Determining its career to the 

 N., two leagues below the bridge of Apurimac, it forces its passage through the 

 lofty territory of the Andes, running between mountains of incredible elevation, 

 by which it is supplied with abundant waters. In 13 degrees 10 minutes, the 

 river of Cocharcas, or Pampas, which descends from the heights of Huancavelica, 

 flows into it to the "W. The Apurimac continues its course, collefting the waters 

 poured down from the mountains of Gnanca ; and, in 12 degrees 15 minutes, is 

 joined to the E. by the river Ouillambamba, Urubamba, or Vilcamayo*^ the primi- 

 tive name of which is changed into that of Enec y Taraba. In 12 degrees 6 mi- 

 nutes, it is joined to the W. by the river of Jauxa, named by the Indians Mantarof ; 



when. 



and the Jesuits of Quito, on the subject of the town and missions of San Miguel of the Conivcs. Maps 

 were demanded by the royal audience, to the end that a competent judgment might be formed of the 

 litigated point. It was then that father Samuel Fritz drew up the one which was printed at Quito in 

 1707, and in which the Tunguragua is named Maranon, and the Paro, Ucayali, or UcaUali, a word 

 which, signifying confluence, was applied by the inhabitants to that of the Paro and Tunguragua. 

 Hence arose the error of father Fritz. By a discordance of a similar nature, father Acuna asserted, 

 that the Napo was the Maranon. The degree of credit which the greater part of the Jesuits had justly 

 acquired among the distinguished men of letters of those times [Sarmiento, Demonstrat. t. i. § 439, 458, 

 et seq.], may account for the nomenclature of father Fritz having been generally and Implicitly received, t 



* The QuiUambamba originates in the heights of Vilcanota, in 15 degrees 25 minutes ; and irrigating, 

 with a copious stream of water, a portion of which it receives from several rivers, the delightful valley 

 of Urubamba, as well as the eastern boundaries of Anaibamba and Vilcabamba, flows into the Apurimac. 



f The Maataro derives its source in the plains of Bombon, under the denomination of the river of 

 Jauxa, from the lake Chinchayeocha, which is nine leagues in length, and two leagues and a half ia 

 breadth, in 1 1 degrees 3 minutes. It takes a southern direction, and receives, on the east and west, va- 

 rious torrents. After having crossed the valley of Jauxa, it winds to the east, receiving, among other 

 rivers, at the distance of three leagues from the bridge of Iscuchaca, a powerful branch which descends 

 from Huancavelica. In its effort to force a passage through the Cordillera of Guanca, it returns towards 



its 



