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Expeditions Into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539 (the Expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro, by Garcilasso Inca De La Vega, From the 2nd Pt. of His
Expeditions Into the Valley of the Amazons 1539 the Expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro by Garcilasso Inca De La Vega From the 2nd Pt of His Author:Garcilaso de la Vega Title: Expeditions Into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539 (the Expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro, by Garcilasso Inca De La Vega, From the 2nd Pt. of His Royal Commentaries, Book Iii) (the Voyage of Francisco De Orellana, by A. De Herrera, From the 6th Decade of His 'general History of the Western Indies' Book Ix) (a New Discovery of the Great River of... more » the Amazons, by C. De Acuņa) General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1859 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A LIST THE PRINCIPAL TRIBES OF THE VALLEY OF THE AMAZONS. The following alphabetical list is intended to contain every tribe on the main stream of the great river of the Amazons, and on its Peruvian and Ecuadorian tributaries, including all that are mentioned in this volume ; and, to that extent, I believe it to be nearly complete. A great number of tribes, inhabiting the " Gran Chacu," and the banks of the Brazilian rivers, will also be found; and many hundreds which wander along the banks of the Tapajos, Xingu, Tocantins, and other great Brazilian streams, might have been added, had they been connected with the subject of the present volume. I have inserted short notices of the more important tribes, taken from various sources; and a few words of explanation will make this list, which I trust will be found useful for purposes of reference in connexion with the voyages of Orellana and Acuna, sufficiently clear. It is essential, in the first place, to pay attention to the date when each authority wrote ; because many of the names of tribes may since have disappeared, either from their having been changed, or from the tribe having merged into some other larger tribe, or from its having entirely disappeared, and become extinct. F...« less