. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres. memorable matters: taken out of Josephus de Acosta his naturall and morall historic of the West Indies. The first Testimonie out of Josephus de Acosta,lib. 2. cap. 6. Ut when we intreat of Rivers, that which some men call the river of Amazones, others Marannon, others the river of Orellana, doeth justly put to silence all the rest, whereunto our Spaniards have gone and sayled.
. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres. memorable matters: taken out of Josephus de Acosta his naturall and morall historic of the West Indies. The first Testimonie out of Josephus de Acosta,lib. 2. cap. 6. Ut when we intreat of Rivers, that which some men call the river of Amazones, others Marannon, others the river of Orellana, doeth justly put to silence all the rest, whereunto our Spaniards have gone and sayled. And I stand in doubt, whether I may cal it a river or a sea. This river runneth from the mountaines of Piru, from which it gathereth infinite store of waters, of raine, and rivers, which runneth along, gathering it selfe together, and passing through the great fieldes and plaines of Paytiti, of Dorado, and of the Amazones, and falleth at length into the Ocean sea, and entreth into it almost over against the Isles of Margarita and Trinidad. But it groweth so broad, especially towardes the mouth, that it maketh in the middest many and great Isles : and that which seemeth incredible, sayling in the middle chanel 16. TESTIMONIES OF THE AMAZON 1590. of the river, men can see nothing but the skie and theriver, although men say that there are hilles neere thebankes thereof, which can not be kenned, through thegreatnesse of the River. Wee understood by very goodmeanes the wonderful! bredth and largenesse of thisRiver, which justly may bee called the Emperour ofRivers, to wit by a brother of our companie, whichbeing a boy was there, & sayled it wholy through, beingpersonally present in all the successes of that strangeenterance, which Pedro de Orsua made, and in themutinies and perilous conspiracies of that wicked Diegode Aguirre, out of all which troubles and dangers theLord delivered him, to make him one of our societie. The second Testimonie out of Josephus deAcosta, lib. 3. ca
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