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" Such of the Spaniards as afterward endeavoured the con- 

 quest thereof (whereof there have been many, as shall be de- 

 clared hereafter) thought that this Inga (of whom this emperor 

 now living is descended) took his way by the river of Ama-> 

 zons, by that branch which is called Papamene. For by that' 

 way followed Oreliano, (by the commandment of the marquis 

 Pacarro, in the year 1542) whose name the river also beareth 

 this day, which is also by others called Maragnon, although 

 Andrew Thevet doth affirm, that between Maragnon and 

 Amazons, there are one hundred and twenty leagues. But 

 sure it is, that those rivers have one head and beginning, and 

 that Maragnon, which Thevet describeth, is but a branch of 

 Amazons, or Oreliano, of which I will speak more in another 

 place. It was also attempted by Diego Ordace, but whether 

 before Oreliano, or after, I know not. But it is now little 

 less than seventy years since that Ordace, a knight of the order 

 of saint Jago, attempted the same, and it was in the year 

 1542, that Oreliano discovered the river of Amazons. But 

 the lirst that ever saw Manoa was Johannes Martines, master 

 of the munition to Ordace. At a port called Morequito, in 

 Guiana, there lieth, at this day, a great anchor of Ordace's 

 ship ; and this port is some three hundred miles within the 

 land, upon the great river of Orinoko. 



** After Oreliano (who was employed by Pacaro, afterward 

 marquis Pacaro, conqueror and governor of Peru), and the 



