Sailing the unexplored torrent of the wide Amazon, following the serpentine course of its muddy, roiled water, according to the chronicle written by the chaplain of the expedition, the Dominican Fray Gaspar de Carvajal, also from Trujillo, who related the details of the discovery and descent of the Amazon downstream to its mouth, in his famous work “Account of the new discovery of the famous Great Amazon river that was discovered by great venture by the captain Francisco de Orellana”. Unpublished until 1894. On August 26, 1542, they reach the sea after one and a half years of adventures.
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