820 



went down (1540) the great river of the Ama- 

 zons. He found there, between the mouths of 

 the Javari and the Rio de la Trinidad (Yupura ?), 

 a province rich in gold, called Machiparo (Mu~ 

 chifaro), in the vicinity of that of the Aomaguas, 

 or Omaguas. These notions contributed to 

 carry Dorado toward the south-east, for the 

 names Omaguas (Om-aguas, Aguas), Dit-aguas, 

 and Papamene, designated the same country ; 

 that which Jorge de Espira had discovered in 

 his expedition to the Caqueta*. The Omaguas, 

 the Manaos or Manoas, and the Guaypes\ 

 (Uaupes or Guayupes) live in the plains on the 

 north of the Amazon. They are three powerful 

 nations, the latter of which, stretching toward 

 the west along the banks of the Guape or Uaupe, 

 had been already mentioned in the voyages of 

 Quesada and Huten. These two conquistador es, 

 alike celebrated in the history of America, reach- 

 ed by different roads the llanos of San Juan, 

 then called Valle de Nuestra Senora. Hernan 

 Perez de Quesada (1541) passed the Cordilleras 

 of Cundirumarca, probably between the Paramos 

 of Chingasa and Suma Paz ; while Felipe de 

 Huten, accompanied by Pedro de Limpias (the 

 same who had carried to Venezuela the first news 



* Herera, Dec. VI, p. 150, 195 ; Dec. VII, p. 239. Laet % 

 p. 626. See also above, p. 664, 665. 



f See above, p. 341, 342. Herera, Dec. VII, p. 7B. 



