. 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. icatedto Charles the Emperour, Anno 1518. Arannon lyeth in seven degrees and anhalfe Northward of the Equinoctial, itis a great river, and hath more thenfifteene leagues in bredth eight leagueswithin the land. It hath many islands,and in this river within the land fortieleagues there is neere to the sayde rivera mountaine, whereupon growe trees of Incense, thetrees be of a goo
. 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. icatedto Charles the Emperour, Anno 1518. Arannon lyeth in seven degrees and anhalfe Northward of the Equinoctial, itis a great river, and hath more thenfifteene leagues in bredth eight leagueswithin the land. It hath many islands,and in this river within the land fortieleagues there is neere to the sayde rivera mountaine, whereupon growe trees of Incense, thetrees be of a good height, & the boughs thereof belike to Plumtrees, and the Incense doeth hang at them,as the yce doeth at the tiles of a house in the winterseason when it doeth freeze. In this river were takenfoure Indians in a smal boat, called in the Indian lan-guage a Canoa, that came downe by the river, andthere were taken from them two stones of Emeralds,the one of them being as great as a mans hand. Theysayd that so many dayes journey going upward by theriver, they found a rocke of that stone. Likewisethere were taken from them two loaves made of floure,which were like to cakes of Sope, and it seemed that 19 AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 1518. they were kneaded with the licour of Balsamum. Allthis coast from the Cape of S. Austine unto Marannonis a cleare coast & deep, but neer to the river arecertaine sholds towardes the East part. And by theWest part the river is deepe, and it hath a good this river Marannon, unto the river which iscalled The sea of fresh water, are 25 leagues: thisriver hath 40 leagues of bredth at the mouth, andcarieth such abundance of water that it entreth morethen 20 leagues into the Sea, and mingleth not it selfewith the salt water: this bredth goeth 25 leagueswithin the land, and after it is devided into partes,the one going towards the Southeast, and the othertowards the Southwest. That which goeth towardsthe Southeast is very deepe and of muc
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