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of the Paramo d'Iscance. It receives the 

 Papamene, which comes from the Andes of 

 Nueva, and takes successively the names of Rio 

 Iscance, Tama (on account of the adjacent pro- 

 vince of Tama Indians), Guayave, Baraguan, 

 and Oroonoko." The position of the Paramo of 

 Iscance, a lofty pyramidal summit, which I saw 

 from the table-land of Mamendoy and the beau- 

 tiful banks of the Mayo, characterises in this 

 description the Caqueta. The Rio Papamene 

 is the Rio de la Fragua, which forms with the 

 Rio de Mocoa one of the principal branches of 

 the Caqueta ; and is known to us by the chival- 

 rous travels of George of Spires and Philip von 

 Huten*. These two warriors did not reach the 

 banks of the Papamene, till they had passed the 

 Ariari and Guayavero. The Tama Indians *f- are 



vincial of the Order of Saint Francis in New Grenada, exa- 

 mined with his own eyes a great part of South America, and 

 wrote his history in part from the important memoirs of the 

 great Conquistador and Adelantado Gonzalo Ximenes di Que- 

 sada, who described his own expeditions in two volumes, 

 with the title of Ratos de Suesca, as well as from the journals 

 of the Fathers Francisco Medrano, Pedro Aguado, and Juan 

 de Castellanos. 



* It is difficult to recognize the illustrious name of Huten 

 in the Spanish historians. They call Philip von Huten, by 

 retrenching the aspirate h, Felipe de Uten, de Urre, or de 

 Utre. t{ Uten como algumos quiereu que se llamase Utre." 

 (Simon, p. 351.) 



fThey, as well as the Coreguajes, speak the Cora lan- 

 guage. 



