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passed the Cordilleras to the east of Tunja,* 
pabarked on the Rio Casanare, and went down by this 
^er, the Meta, and the Orinoco, to the island ot Trinidad. 
V e scarcely know this voyage except by the narrative ot 
aieigh ; it appears to have preceded a few years the first 
oundation of Vieja O my ana, which was in the year 1591. 
years later (1595) Berrio caused his maeee de campo, 
"Oiningo de 1 "era, to prepare in Europe an expedition of 
0 thousand men to go up the Orinoco, and conquer El 
orado, which then began to he called ‘ the country of the 
1 even the Laguna de la gran Manoa. Rich 
wh' I sold their farms, to take part in a crusade, to 
ich twelve Ohservantin monks, and ten secular eccle- 
lastics Were annexed. The talcs related by one Martinez f 
roaH between the Paramos of Chita and of Zoraca, taking the 
Riri o' *^bire and Pore. Berrio told Raleigl), that he came from the 
Met fbe Pato, from the Pato to the Meta, and from the 
® “ ’•be Baraguan (Orinoco). We must not confound this Rio Pato 
connected no doubt with that of the ancient mission of Patuto) 
'*>«> the Rio Pante. 
«bro ^ demonstrate, that the fable of Juan Martinex, spread 
narrative of Raleigh, was founded on the adventuies of 
Ouesr . Alhujar, well known to the Spanish historians of the Con- 
band ' expedition of Pedro de Silva (1570), fell into the 
the Caribs of the Lower Orinoco. This Albujar mamed an In- 
own became a savage himself, as happens sometimes in our 
After ’be western limits of Canada and of the United States. 
Whit "'eutisred with the Caribs, the desire of rejoining the 
made*^* Essequibo to the island of Trinidad. He 
Cator ®’“^’t''sions to Santa Fe de BogotA, and at length settled at 
(jnf .*■ K^imon, p. 591). I know not whether he died at Porto Rico ; 
trade ■ '’“1”''”' be doubted, that it was he who learned from the Carib 
banks^ ’be name of the Manoas [of Jurubesh]. As he lived on the 
niav b ° Upper Carony, and reappeared by the Rio Essequibo, he 
PutiuwT^ '"’p*’’’ . place the lake Manoa at the isthmus of Ru- 
''illaae '"t makes his Juan Martinez embark below Morequito, a 
Thence b ^'‘at confluence of the Carony with the Orinoco, 
bads at dragged by the Caribs from town to town, till he 
bad know ^ delation of the inca Atabalipa (Atahualpa), whom he 
It aim» " b'^bjre at Caxamarca, aiul who had fled before the Spaniards, 
"’as two*"^* * Raleigh had forgotten that the voyage of Ordaz (1531) 
tion of anterior to the death of Atahualpa, and the entire destruc- 
Ordaz w' ““a’ have confounded the e.vpedition of 
'aok. Th 1 (1570), in which Juan Martin de Albuzar par- 
e latter, who related his tales at Santa Fe, at Venezuela, and 
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