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A relation of the great river of Amazons in South-America. Containing all the particulars of Father Christopher d'Acugna's voyage, made at the command of the king of Spain.Title section (A Journal of the travels . . . Guiana)
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JOURNAL
O F THE
TRAVELS
O F
John GRillet,
AND
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Francis Bechamel
g v Ta n a,
In the Year, 1674.
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Order to Difcover the Great Lake
of PARIMA^ and the many Cities
faid to be fituated on its Banks, and
reputed the Richeft in the World.
LONDON:
Printed for Samuel Buckley. 1698.
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A Letter written from
the Ifland o£ Cayenne fin the Month
of September, 16y^
Cayenne, Sept. 2.
1-674.
Reverend Father,
THE Difcovery that I and Father'Be-
chamel, have made of divers Savage
Nations on the Continent of Gxfxana, near the
Ifland of Cayenne, obliges me to draw up a
brief Relation of our Voyage, and to prefent it to
your Reverence, that you may kwvc> what Em-
ployment we may have here, and how many
Miffionaries may find a fit Occafion for the Ex-
ercife of their Zeal. If I had had fonte Com-
panions whom I might have left with the Nou-
ragues and the Acoquas, Ifiould have piere'd
much farther into the Country ; but the Nou-
tagues who were our Guides, not daring to ad-
vance farther into the Country of the Acoquasfo
retain the good will of 'em both, wefioulcl have
left a Mijjionary in each of thefe Nations, that
the Acoquas might have çonduUed us to their
Friends, who (as far as I can conjecture) reach
quite to the Equinoctial Line. We might alfo
have pafs'd to the Weft of the River Maroni,
and have enter d into an Alliance with the Na-
tions that extend to the River of Surinam,
Upon which the Dutch have planted (1) a Co-
T 2 lony ;
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lony: but fince we have confin'd our felves to
thofe Countries that are ftom Three Degrees of
Northern Latitude to the Equino&ial Lipe,
we need not be afraid that the People of any
European Nation will trouble us in our Mifi-
fions, becaufe there's no gain to be made by
'em 5 befides, that we run the rifque of being
Maffacred by the Natives. Tis from your
Reverence that we expeff Support and Affift-
ance fo far as you are capable, and fiall think
convenient in fending us Miffionaries of a Vi-
gorous Conftitution, of great Vertue, and of a.
Difpofition ready to fuffer hardfhips 3 becaufe
in thefe parts there can little or no Accommoda-
tions be brought to relieve them in cafe ofSick-
nefsj for the lefs one carries thither fo much
the better , befides that the Ignorance a?id Bar-
barity of thofe People always give aMiffionary
juft occafion to fear, that they take up mifchie-
vous Refolutions againfl him at the very firft
fhadow of diffatisfaHion they receive. I ex-
peU- here a good number of Miffionaries to dif-
pofe up and down this vaft Country, and I
hope your Reverence will not refufe this Re-
queft 5 which obliges me particularly to recom- '
mend my felf to your good Prayers, who am
Reverend Father,
Your moft Humble, and moft Obedient
; Servant in our Lord, JohnGrillet, of
the Society of JESOSf
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