ABSTRACT

563Amazonas—Its Discovery—El Dorado—Gonçalo Pizarro—His Expedition—Cruelties—Sufferings—Desertion of Orellana—His Descent of the River—Fable of the Amazons—Fate of the Adventurer—Name of the River—Settlement of the Country—Successive Expeditions up and down the Amazon—Sufferings of Madame Godin—Present State—Victoria Regia—Steam-Navigation Effects of Herndon and Gibbon’s Report—Peruvian Steamers—The Future Prospects of the Amazon.