38^ A VOYAGE TO Book VI. 



nora de las Nieves, the capital of the Yurimagua na- 

 tion ; and having vifitcd the reft under his charge, to 

 the number of forty-one, all large and populous, he 

 went, on other public affairs, to the town of Laguna,> 

 - the capital of all the milTions on the Maranon, where 

 the fuperior refided ; and afterwards repaired to the 

 city of Lima, in order to communicate to the count 

 de Moncloa, at that time viceroy, a full account of 

 all thofe countries. This iaft journey he undertook 

 by the way of the rivers Gualiaga, Patanapura, Moyo- 

 bamba, Chachapoyas, Caxamarca, Truxillo, and 

 Lima, 



The affairs which brought this indefatigable mif* 

 fionary to Lima, where he was received with great 

 honour, being finifhed , Fatlier Fritz, in Auguft 1693^= 

 fet out, on his return to his niilTions, by the way of 

 the city of Jaen de Bracamoros, with a viev; of re- 

 Connoitrins; the courfe and fituation of the rivers 

 which, from thofe fouthern parts, fall into the Ma- 

 tanon. By the help of thefe additional lights, he drew 

 a map of that river, which was engraved at Quito, in- 

 the year 1707 : and though it had not all the accu- 

 racy which could be defired, the father being without 

 inftruments for pbferving the latitudes and longitudes- 

 of the chief places, taking the courfe of the rivers, 

 and determining the diftances ; yet it was received 

 with very great applaufe, as being the only one in which 

 were laid down the fource and direction of all the 

 rivers which join the Maranon, and the whole courfe 

 of the latter till its junftion with the ocean. 



in. iAc count of the Conqucfi^ Mtfjions^ and Nattons'^^ 

 eftabli/Ioed on the Maranon, 



The difcovery of this famous river, and the furvey 



©f the adjacent countries and nations, was foHowed by 

 the conquefl of the nations who inhabited its banks^ 



and* 



