[38] As Fray Pedro Simon records in the fragment of his “Noticias historiales” printed by Lord Kingsborough.
[39] In this act he abused his powers, which only permitted him to concede the whole government of Peru at pleasure, while single districts were put under the direction of commanders who could not be changed by him. See Herrera, dec. vi. lib. iii. cap. xi., and lib. viii. cap. vi.
[40] Herrera, dec. vi. lib. viii. cap. vi.
[41] It was probably the black cinnamon which Balmont de Bomaré” in his “Dictionnaire d’Histoire Naturelle” of 1765 calls “Canelle geroflée, Capelet ou Bois de Crabe.”
[42] Oviedo says 230; Zarate, 200, and 4000 Indians.
[43] “Historia del Descubrimiento y de la Conquista del Peru.”
[44] “Une Barca llena de Bastimento.”
[45] Fray Gaspar de Carvajal, a Dominican, who went in Orellana’s voyage, says that the current was so strong that they travelled twenty-five leagues a day.
[46] On which a contemporary, Gómara, in his “Historia General de las Indias,” division, “Rio de Orellana,” lays special emphasis.
[47] The later Peruvian fable of the Paytiti is connected, as Von Humboldt has justly remarked, with the last concerted efforts of the Inca tribe to hold its position on the upper tributaries of the Amazon, and has therefore no connection the real dorado legend.