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A90519	An historical & geographical description of the great country & river of the Amazones in America. Drawn out of divers authors, and reduced into a better forme; with a mapp of the river, and of its provinces, being that place which Sr Walter Rawleigh intended to conquer and plant, when he made his voyage to Guiana. / Written in French by the Count of Pagan, and dedicated to Cardinall Mazarine, in order to a conquest by the Cardinals motion to be undertaken. And now translated into English by William Hamilton, and humbly offered to his Majesty, as worthy his consideration.	Pagan, Blaise François de, comte de Merveilles, 1604-1665.; Hamilton, William, gent.	1660 (1660)	Wing P162; Thomason E1805_2; ESTC R209931	71,773	189

AN Historical Geographical DESCRIPTION OF THE Great Country River OF THE AMAZONES IN AMERICA Drawn out of divers Authors and reduced into a better forme with a Mapp of the River and of its Provinces being that place which Sr Walter Rawleigh intended to conquer and plant when he made his Voyage to Guianu Written in French by the Count of Pagan and dedicated to Cardinall Mazarine in order to a Conquest by the Cardinals motion to be undertaken And now translated into English by William Hamilton and humbly offered to his Majesty as worthy his Consideration LONDON Printed for John Starkey at the Miter in Fleet-street near Temple-Barre 1660. TO THE Imperial Majesty OF CHARLES II of Great-Brittain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith of Protestants and of Protestants themselves by his Title of signal providence Happiness Victories Triumphs Gracious Sir NOt only freewill-offerings and gifts were acceptable to God though they had a member or members superfluous or were deficient in some and so had much imperfection so it were not of the nature of unsincerity in which respect they behoved to be without blemish Levit. 22.23 but in trespass-offerings also which were commanded and not left free if the Party was poor not only a single Turtle or young Pigeon was accepted for the other was for an Holocaust but a single meat-offering a very little Flower or Meal and a little Salt to it were accepted for both Holocaust and trespass-offering under one Lev. 5.7 which being doubtlesly in use from Noahs time or Adams rather as elsewhere I hope to make it appear gave as undoubtedly the beginning to that practice and proverb among the Heathens Heathenism being but an inveterate corruption of heresie and schism from the Religion delivered by God to Adam and Noah as shall also God willing be made appea● molâ salsâ litant qui non habent thura such may acceptably sacrifice to God with meal and salt who have not frankincense The like debonnairety to accept of mean gifts from good mindes hath also been annumerated to the heroick indowments of the greatest Kings Thus Artaxerxes disdained not a pitcher of water from a Paisant And Plutarch in his Apophthegms shows by one of them the property of a royall disposition to have been esteemed this Non minus est regium parvula accipere quam largiri magna It is no less Kingly to accept of little things than freely to bestow great matters And this Royall Sir is my humble request to your saered Majesty at this time That you will graciously accept a mean gift from a mean giver and by your royall return of justice and bountie to enable me to serve God and your Majesty with better God himself inviting you thereto by his example who allowed even of poor freewill-offerings made to him of purpose to obtain his bountifull returns of some eminent benefits or favours And yet a mean gift Sir I call this of mine not that the work it self should be so accounted but my work about it which is but a Translation For the Book though in bulke but small in its concernments is very rich and as highly commendable in it self so not much less in the Author In its natural language it made its first address to Cardinal Mazarine in order to have set his Majesty of France on conquest of the great Kingdome of the Amazone to himself But having these five years at least that now it hath been abroad not made use of it that way it comes now by me to beg your Majesties favourable acceptance in hope of that large retribution to your self when your Majesty shall think fit to apply your thoughts to it for which it was intended to another It was by an old servant of your Majesties Royall Fathers and Gandfathers I. L. D. brought over and communicate to one of your Majesties most expert Seamen C. W. who from his youth up and often times since hath been in and knowes perfectly all the coasts of the Southern America Both these are very confident at least wish heartily and my self with the like affection do now humbly present it also That your Majesty would so consider of that great Empire as if it were already your own as it may be with much ease if your applications be seasonable and suitable to its worth For it is possest by the barbarous Natives only except in two Skirts Brasile on the East where the Portuguaise pitched and Peru upon the West where the Spaniard is divided from the Inland by the tract of the Andes or Cordeliere hills but in the Peninsular great continent your Majesty may dresse an Empire of near nine thousand miles in circuit of the pleasantest fertilest and richest continent in the world whether for air waters or soil to which no Prince can pretend much less lay a claim For the discoveries of that River by the Portugaise and Spaniards were more to satisfie their curiosity than that they could then hope for a conquest And the Natives not only in their forlorn condition but by singular junctures of providence call for the Christian Religion from us while others cease from that duty as the man of Macedon did Paul to help them while he was hindred to go into Bithynia Act. 16.7 9 10. and others have been hindred hitherto to go to them for such end but they may also easily be made to receive your Majesties Government with friendship if wisely dealt with For while neither Portugall nor Spain nor France pursued the design here offered God in in his providence amidst your Majesties and your good Subjects troubles seems not obscurely to have been designing this for you and your Brittain as may be hoped from ancient prediction not liable to exception from the solidest and soberest wits as at another occasion I may fullier clear if your Majesty command it and so much the more as his providence hath prevented your projecting having already made way and brought to pass for your Majesties interest an opportune and considerable Colonie by that noble Lord Willoughbee of Parham to his great travels hazards and vast expenses both seeming to concurre with the foresaid prediction and to point out your Majesty for the layer of such a foundation both to Christ and your self The Author of this work is a French Earl of a most ancient Nobility and descent from those famous and honourable Commanders in the holy Warres who for their wise conduct and rare valour were imployed in places of great trust and transmitted them with the Coat of arms and name of Pagan which was the badge of their great exploits in mating and killing the Pagans or Infidels to their suecessors of the same name and family as the Author himself showes at large in the Dedication of his rare Book of Fortifications to another noble branch of the same family of whose rare accomplishments for gentile and manly learning and Souldiery lest I should here presume too much upon your Majesties patience I

ashamed to claim so honourable a priviledge if he can do it truely and hath just occasion and circumstances to extort it from him would show but himself too modest at best and almost unworthy of it especially if he had a better Jupiter in place to make both his address and claim to than the other had For as low as my fortunes are I can claim to the best blood in England and that by England and neither very far off nor in an illegitimate way Neither need I to be ashamed of my fortunes though hitherto which was my weakness I have been ashamed of them whereas I ought not to have been ashamed but of sin seeing I parted from them willingly for retaining to vertue and a good conscience Solomon hath told me that all things come alike to all and that the race is not to the swift nor the battell to the strong nor bread to the wise nor riches to men of understanding nor favour to men of skill but time and chance happeneth to them all Eccles 9.2 11 c. I was never lower yet than that great and noble Generall of that great Emperour Justinian was unjustly brought to his masters no little dispraise Belisarius of immortall renown And why should I be ashamed to lay open my case to so Royall a Physician as I have done or be diffident of the cure since the fountain of civil honour which he is will do nothing contrary to true honour and Gods Great Steward of fortunes and preferments that are in his own gift in his own dominions will neither deal niggardly ungenerously or unjustly where nothing but justice and right is sought Far be any thing of this from being taken as contrary to the first founders of a noble race who though they cannot claim descent yet are beyond most of those that can since it is more to give or make a noble descent than to receive it and most cadets prove oftner cadents than culminants and seldome equall their founders but unspirit themselves and evaporate to a vappidness of money or prediall-gentility I mean not so much that which is bought with momy for that may be so where it deserved to have been given as that which hath nothing but riches to sustain it Cicero answered Salustius his objection of an upstart well if we suppose the invectives to be theirs Ego meis majoribus virtute praeluxi Tu tuis turpiter offudisti tenebras And as for occupations and offices though some be justly accounted more fordid and illiberall others more honourable and gentile yet all that are lawfull coming from God and from his Spirit as well as these mentioned and implyed Exod. 31.3 c. none joyned with virtue can justly ignobilitate any Yea I know none of the basest and meanest of them but in conjunction with virtue and piety but especially when they come to put on something of the nature of piety it self or immediate service to God as some of them did under the Old Testament God hath left place for them to be pareille to or in conjunction with the highest Thus David wished rather to be a doorkeeper in the house of his God a Porter of the Temple than to be a King in the Tents of wickedness And to Moses his posterity though King in Jeshurun yea more than a King a King Priest and Prophet which is more than ever we read of any other except Christ of whom be was therein a singular Type ever a typicall Mediatour for be consecrated Aaron to his Priesthood which without being Priest he could not have dine yet there was no more allotted to them but to be chief Porters in the house of God What calling meaner than a Butcher Yet the High-Priest the second person in the Kingdome and sometimes and in some respects the first was by his calling a sacred Butcher and if I be not mistaken as I hope in my Scripturall researches I may show that I am not the King himself in some cases was such a sacred Butcher in some sort in that he killed his own sacrifices and it was an high and an eminent honour to him too and ever bad been accounted as the priviledge of the first-born where the excellency of dignity and of power was by divine institution before the Jewes policy was erected A Preacher of this City that now bears his head high when a Gentleman showed him as I have heard from the Party a Tract by him done into Latine and subscribed in the Title-page Per A. B. Nobilem c. he very smatterer-like and pedantickly bewryed his ignorance that nobilis in Roman and purest Latine phrase that we could have signified a Gentleman but he would not understand it otherwayes but according to the Anglism that he was acquainted with whereby Nobleman is appropriate to Barons Vicounts Earls c. Another person of quality in this City as I have heard the Story rising from a mean degree to great fortunes had a distressed Gentleman without the Gentleman 's own knowledge recommended to his company and Table and thereupon the Citizen himself inviting him too he well accepted of it and was as well taken with and upon further converse so well that he justly apprehended some more than ordinary favours towards him if he would lay hold on them To lay hold he was most willing and did but resolved to proceed cantiously and slowly for many Reasons which if they had known or had the patience till discreetly they might have been opened to them they would have allowed of But they construing this slowness for neglect were offended and that so far that at length the Gentleman not finding it best to alter his procedure the Citizen discharged him his house though upon a contrary pretence He took this as an high affront as indeed it was And they coming to know their mistake invited him again but so unsufficiently the Master of the house being excepted from being the inviter though he had been the discharger that the Gentleman would not thereupon come so soon as it seems they expected him but he did cast himself to meet with them where he might either have a fuller invitation from them that had the right or opportunity to tell them what an one their Deputy had given him But he found them in a new discontent and mistake upon refusall of that invitation which increased to such distance that it could not be removed through their too high carriage which he disdained the more the higher it was untill at length going about to beget a right understanding again be received such another signall affront as he vowed never to enter their house untill be knew he had a full and free invitation that came from him that discharged him Matters standing thus now the Gentleman to whom I could not deny such a courtesie for many reasons requested me That thus in a cloud to others I would find a way as soon as I could to uncloud his business briefly to

the parties concerned that they might make such use thereof as they saw good And I have chosen this way of examples subjoyned to the discourse of generosity by way of Apology for my self and first opening my condition from that obscurity it lay under to prevent or repulse the currish snarls of clownish Pedants and Schiolists My intent in this Translation is beside what I have exprest to his Majesty the propagation of Religion and the good of England But if Religion be not better intended and attended and prosecuted by undertakers than it hath been at home it may justly frustrate all and cast us in as great confusions abroad as it did at home But because this would require more length than this Epistle is now fit to be drawn unto and I may have another occasion for it perhaps ere long I heartily recommend all to Gods blessing and thy good acceptance and bid thee farewell Blackefriers this 22 of October 1660. W. H. 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To my Lord the most Eminent Cardinall MAZARINE My Lord WHat can be offered greater in a little work than the great River of the Amazones It now offers it self with all its grandures to your Eminency after that it hath hidden them so long time It desires baptisme from you for all its peoples it desires laws from you for all its Nations and a valiant King for all its Provinces that he may unite them to his Crown If the conquest thereof be easie neither will the expense thereof be excessive For there will need no great Armies here to give battels nor no great provision of Artillery for carrying on of sieges There is need only of preparations fitting for planting of five Colonies at the first aboard the first whereof is to be in the Isle of the Sun for guarding the best entry into this great Rivers mouth The second on the famous Bosphore or Strait thereof to desend and keep this Rivers passage The third on that renowned point of the Comanares for the best seat of that whole Empire The fourth near to the Mountain of Swana whereby to be Master of the gold-mine there And the fifth and last on the mouth of the River of Maragnon to watch over the Frontier of that side of the Andes And in favours of this first establishment your Eminence might easily adde the alliances of the Illustrious and renowned Nations of the Homagues of the Generous and noble Yorimans of the valiant Topinambes and give order for a Fleet-volant of about twelve men of Warre continually to be visiting and going between these Colonies because the distance by sailing of the farthest of these from the other will be at the least a thousand Spanish leagues and this alwayes upon the channell of the great River of the Amazones it self But this is enough for an Epistle and the Book it self will speak the matter more at length and in so noble a design your Counsels will not be wanting to France as I shall never be wanting my Lord to give you all sort of honour submissions and respects being as I am of Your Eminence the most humble most obedient and most obliged Servant Blaise Francis de Pagan From Paris the 12th of March 1655. MAGNI AMAZONI FLUVII IN AMERICA MERIDIONALI noua delineatio AN HISTORICAL AND Geographical Description OF THE Great River of the Amazones IN AMERICA CHAP. I. Of the greatness of the River of the Amazones WHat the Danow is to Europe Ganges to Asia and Nilus to Afrique the same is the great Amazone to America And as America is the greatest part of the world so is the River of the Amazones the greatest River in the Universe His length is of greater extent than that of the Nile and Negro in Afrique his breadth larger than that of Ganges and Kiam in Asia his navigation and portableness is better than that of the Danow and Rhine in Eurupe his mouth or entrance into the Sea is more open than that of Plata and Saint Lawrence in America and his depth is like unto that of the Oceane and of the mediterrane-Sea His inundations or overflowings are yearly and fruitfull his aspect is every where and every way pleasant all his branches and Rivers running out of him are inhabited his fields are all fertile and all his adjoyning plaines or valleys cultivated Chase fishing and Venison are there every where great store woods fruits and Corn-fields for harvest cover the grounds and little hills there and the sweetness of his Air is through all alike equally temperate and both gold and silver are found in the Rivers and mountains there Its peoples are innumerable its Iles great and infinite in number yet inhabited all its peoples are spritely and nimble and the riches of the Climate furnisheth them abundantly with all things This River's course is almost alwayes under the equinoctiall Line and every where his nights and days are of alike length and the other Rivers that pay their tribute to him are all under the torride Zone Marvellous effects of the divine providence which having distanced so many Nations from the Sea-coasts and its commodities hath given them so great Rivers and waters in so great abundance that this famous River of the Amazones may reasonably enough be called an Ocean-Sea of sweet waters But all its prerogatives which by an universall consent have made the title of the greatest River of the world be given unto it shall more amply be seen and with more particular deduction of Circumstances in the following Chapters of this Book CHAP. II. Of the great Realm of the Amazone IN the Peninsule or almost-Ile of the Southerly America and almost in the midst of so great a Continent or main-Land there is a great extent of Land covered with so many

Nations and watered with so many Rivers that of it might be formed a Kingdome or Empire of three thousand Leagues in compass for one that would make the conquest of it It s rich and opulent Countries which all of them together I call the great Kingdome or Realm of the Amazone seeing all their waters and Rivers render themselves into this great and renowned River of the Amazones have for their boundaries Brasile towards the East the Kingdome of New-Granado and the coast of Guiana towards the North and towards the West Peru and the great Cordelier and Southward Tucuman and Paraguais all Provinces under the Crown of Castile except Brasile subject to the Portugallians that inhabit it I said of three thousand Leagues in compass not precisely but near to that dimension because the diversity of Mapps and of their opinions and reports that have compassed it not only cross one another but also thwart themselves in their relations that they give of it as by name Father Christopher D'Acogna a Spanish Jesuit and a principall author and eye-witness of these things But of these doubtfull and diverse mensurations we shall speak elsewhere let us here draw towards an end of this Chapter in telling you That all this great Realm of Amazone is inhabited only as yet of Indians and Americans and not at all of Spaniards whether Castilians or Portuguais These have indeed discovered it and run its length first of any with their armed Navies but only passed thorow and never stayed any where to build fortresses or plant colonies as they have done in so great number and with so great state and magnificence in other Countries of the same America But if Spain happily situated for commanding over this new world had turned her thoughts towards the conquest of this Empire of the great Amazone instead of consuming unprofitably so many Armies and so great treasures in her Warres of Europe as she hath done now for an hundred years she might have enjoyed by this time the glory and advantages of so great an Empire from the conquest of which now she is further off than ever as well for the reason of her present weakness as her intestine division CHAP. III. Of the Nations of this great Realm THe innumerable Nations and Provinces of this great Empire of the Amazone are not all yet distinctly known by their severall names and languages because the Spaniards who last navigated this famous River have not marked them all but only one hundred and fifty of them The Provinces are all so mightily peopled and their habitations so thick that from the last village of one Town one may hear the noise of such as travail from the first village of anopher And yet so near a neighbour hood not being able to keep them in peace they are in continuall Warres one Nation against another Yet neither ambition of command nor greediness of acquiring riches not a desire to eat men as Canibals of the same America have are any of the grounds of so many cruell and bloody Battels without which were it not for all this so many people could never be contained in these Countries but the cause of all these Fights wherein are often slain an infinitie of persons is only for glory and renown and to have slaves of a strange or other Nation than their own and that because at home amongit themselves the innocence of their manners and riches of the Climate not being apt to bring men to a necessity of serving others of their own accord none is found there obliged to such a condition but by force of Arms. And yet this invincible courage that they exercise thus against one another hath not yet appeared against the Spaniards who navigate and run the River of Amazones in Arms foras much as hither to either a light fleeing if at any time they opposed them or a mutuall amity embraced and consented to by them have been the only Arms which to this present they have employed against these dominators of the new world the Spaniards But all America being barren of Iron we must not think it strange if the inhabitants of this great Realm have been surprized with fear as all other Indians were and are of the Sword the Musquiet and of Artillery CHAR. IV. Of their Arms and Commerce SEing neither Steel nor Iron are found at all in the West Indies we must not marvell if the Americans of this great Kingdom have no other Arms but Arrows and Javelots about which notwithstanding they are marvellously expert not only for making them of hard wood and sharp pointed but also for shooting and casting them with so great force that therewith they pierce through and through the body of their enemies which they hit The same necessity makes them also use stones well brought to an edge and Tortoise shells for Axes and Hatchets and their instruments of travelling the one for great wood and the other for less and houshold Utensils But they use the horn of certain little Beasts fastned to little hefts for their finer works which they make upon wood with marvellous skill As for the Commerce of all these peoples on this great River of the Amazones and on other Rivers that run into it they perform it in Boats which they call Canoès that are made all of Cedar and all of one piece as in other places of the Indies but with more ease and better than elsewhere because this great River during its overflowings brings down so great a number of great Trees that these peoples have no more to do to come by them but every one to lay hold on and stay as many as he desires at his House there to cut and hollow them as he thinks meet As for Cloathes such as use any have them all almost of Cotton and for such as go naked which are the greatest part neither excessive heat nor rigour of cold forces them to cover themselves in that sort CHAP. V. Of their Customes and Religion THere were never any written Laws amongst those peoples and all their customes are almost much alike Some of them live at liberty and some of them under Cacyques or Lords as the rest of America They have Idols of wood made by mans hand which they adore as their gods attributing to some of them the power over waters and giving them a Fish for their mark to others the power over fruits and seeds of the earth They have also such as they take for gods of Armies and Battels and they openly avouch that these deities came down from Heaven to live with them to do them good and procure their profit They have neither Temples nor Ceremonies wherewith they adore them but leave them carelesly in some corner of their House untill they have occasion to use them But when they take water to go to Warre they place on the Poup of their Vessels their god of Armies and so they use the others in like sort They have also

Province of Kixo had made for any that took that charge and during the making whereof for the longsomenesse of the goings and comings of Posts and of consultations ordinarily to be used in such rencontres the time of his Government coming to expire were come to that point that for any might take that charge the good intentions of the Catholique King in this were for that time made unprofitable not only by the change of the Governour but also by the death of his Successor Alonzo de Miranda who carried himself with the same zeal towards the same discovery Now the rumour of these goodly and noble Propositions of the Castilians of Peru passing presently into Brasile the emulation of the Portugalls made them presently make the like about the same in the Court of the Catholique King there who was yet in possession of their Kingdom So that upon the warmth and zeal that Benito Maciel Governour of the Province of Maragnon witnessed that he had for the discovery of the great River of the Amazones by that side of its mouth that bounded his Government the Patents were sent him 1626 in the ordinary conditions But his generous designes were yet hindered by the Warres of the Hollanders against the Portugalls in the Province of Pernambouk of the same Kingdom of Brasile and Frontier to that of Maragnon who feared not a little the disasters of it Mean while the orders of this conquest are redoubled by the cares of the King Don Philip. They are alwaies sent to the Governour of Maragnon and Francis Coeille of Carvaille who had then the Government of it received them 1633 and 34 who notwithstanding coming to consider that in parting his Forces for to send some of them or conduct them himself for discovery of the great River of the Amazones that the rest that stayed in the Province would not be able to guard it against the assaults of the Hollanders who from the year 1630 had taken the famous Town of Olynda of the Province of Pernambouk and possessed the neigbouring coasts the expedition for the discovery was by him wisely delayed Thus a necessity to defend themselves hindered yet the Portugalls for this time to aspire to the glory of an enterprise so much desired and so often before checked CHAP. XLII Of the Religious of St Francis that came down all the great River IT was in the beginning of the year 1635 that Captain Johne de Palacies of whom we have spoken before accompanied with thirty Spanish Souldiers and six religious of the Convent of St Francis of the Town of Kyto descended from the Mountains of the Cordelier into the Plaines of Kixo to settle his abode as he did without hindrance as to the Savages at the Village of Anete upon the great River of the Amazones In this Post the furthest advanced of all those that the Spaniards held in the East Countries of the Andes the valour of Johne de Palacios and of his seem'd no lesse admirable than the zeal of the religious of St Francis shew'd it self ardent for advancing the Christian Religion Both the one and the other exercised themselves in these places either to make the neighbouring Nations obedient to the Crown of Castille or to gain souls to God from amongst so many Peoples no lesse fierce than Savage But neither their perseverance in their travalls nor their courage in their fights nor finally their holy and zealous exhortations could ever prevail any thing especially in the Province of the long-hair'd People where Captain Johne de Palacios 1636 was put to death by the Barbarians Whereby all his Souldiers were so discomforted and the religious themselves were so far put back that abandoning all of them presently their abode at Anete they retired all to their ancient Houses under the reserve or disposall of Father Andrew of Toledo Father Dominique de Brieve and six Souldiers only that were resting not to stay any longer in those unfortunate places but to go all into a little Barke and to expose themselves to the rapid current of the vast Amazone and try better adventures in his waters than on the firm Land that butted on his banks So destiny hath reserved the Names of those two religious to be inserted in Histories that their marvellous hardinesse to have enterprised a Voyage so extraordinary for so many circumstances might never be wiped out of memory of Ages to come For if Amerique and Drake have been no lesse glorious for having been but the seconds the one for touching on the firm Land of America and the other for rounding the world these other feeble and new Argonantes shall also be no lesse renown'd for having but made the second Navigation of all the great River of the Amazones In end after much wearisomenesse endured many dangers escaped and alwaies upheld by Providence these two Fathers of St Francis the six Spanish Souldiers and their little Barke the companion of their glory arrived happily at Para a Town of Brasile where they presently fill'd the eyes and ears of all the People with admiration but above all the noble courage of Pedro Texeira Captain Major who commanded in that great and rich Capitanrie of the Province of Maragnon the Governour Generall whereof then James Raymund of Norogna resided at St Lewis whether the two religious went to him in like manner to give him as much content by the pleasant relations of their singulare adventures as emulation to this conquest by the famous examples of their memorable Voyage CHAP. XLIII Of the Departure of Pedro Texeira for this Discovery IN end fortune being wearied so long to crosse a design that Spain had travelled with with so much care cast her favourable eyes on the person of Pedro Texeira Captain Major of Para in Brasile that his courage and prudence coming to second the choice that she had made of him and preferred him to so many Subjects of merit he might arrive at the glory to have been the first to make the whole great River of the Amazones feel the heavy and victorious Fleets of the Catholique King Now the necessity of the Portugalls self-defence who had the expence and diversion of a continuall Warre in the midst of Brasile to maintain could not allow to this noble expedition Forces more considerable than those that parted from the Town of Para the twenty eight of the Moneth of October in the year 1637 under the conduct of Captain Major Pedro Texeira of the same Nation followed by fourty seven Barkes both great and well armed by seventy Portugall Souldiers and one thousand two hundred Indians fitted to the Warre by eight hundred Women and Vallets and furnished with provisions meet and necessary for so long and doubtfull an enterprise The dexterity of the Marriners and Rowers and the favourable help of the windes broke the first difficulties that the Fleet could have had to gain without losse and danger the true channell of the great Amazone But in departing from the