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The News thereof being fent to tfie Vkcrcy of Pern 
refiding at Ltma^ he ordered Genera! Teseira fo twjixn 
to Para by the faire way he came, and Two able Spa- 
niards (of which our Author was cne) to embark wita 
him, to take an Account of the Courfecf the River, and 
the Country and People along it: and then to go to 
Spain to acquaint his Catholick Majeiiy with their 
Difcoveries. Accordingly they left Qt^iio in Jan. iojy. 
and were Ten Months going down the River to Para. 
From thence F. C. D'Acugna w-ent to Sf^alny and pre-. 
Tented the King his Malter with an ample Account of 
what he had obftrvy upon this great River, w hich was 
publifiicd at Madrid, 1641. but within a Year atrer, the 
Portuguefe making themteives Mafters of all Brafil, and 
confequentlyof the Mouth of the ^w^zm, ic was judged 
necefTary to fupprefs the faid Bcok, both in and 
America^ for the following Reafcn ; the frequent facking 
of their Towns, and (eizmg of their Ships by the Eng- 
lilb, French, and Dutch, put Philip the Third upon 
fearchiog out new Ways of Tranfporting the Treafures 
ofPeru^ Chili, znd Granada^ iuto Spain; to which End 
(iheCoafts about, and in the Gulf of Mexico, being as 
well known as thofe in Europe) orders were difpatch'd 
from the Court at Madrid to the Governors of Brazil 
and Peru, to attempt the Navigation of the great River 
of Amazons^ that if it w^re found pradicable, the Gold, 
Silver, and other Merchandizes of Veru, and the adjacent 
Countries might be fafely and ccmmodioufly ftnt down 
to Para, to be put on board the Galleons, w hich would 
lie lefs exposed there, than at Cartagena^ Porto Belo^ or 
Fera Cruz, the Soundings of the Mouth of that River 
being unknown, and dangerous to Strangers. Now the 
lofs of Srf72i/ fpoiling this Projed, and no further Ufa 
being to be made of the Difcovery by the Spaniards, they 
were not willing any ether People ihould beth e better 
