ABSTRACT
The supplicant established a fort in a place called Foherego, fortifying it with a piece of artillery and stone mortars, leaving there part of his men and at the head of them the two Irish men whom he had met in Zeeland returned from the Amazon and the other Master Diego Porcel. The supplicant called the Irish to a council, it seeming to him that if they joined with the 400 English and the reinforcements from Zeeland, the Irish and Catholics would lose command to the heretics and the Indians would be heretics not Catholics. The government of the Maranon, beginning in the captaincy of Ceara and terminating at the river of Vicente Pincon has three hundred and eighty leagues of coastline from three degrees south of the Equator to three degrees north, the coast running west one quarter northwest.
