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By this means Ortelius joined the Nile to the Zaire or Rio Congo, and the Vistula to the Wolga and the Dnieper. The inhabitants have great dogs, en los quales quando se mudan cargan su menage. See the maps of Hondius, and Paulo de Forlani.
All without fraud or evil intent. In witness of the truth, two contracts are made hereof ... and are subscribed by both parties and also by Jodocus Hondius as interpreter and witness."
Hondius and the geographers who have followed him, with the exception of De L'Isle , and of Sanson , place the province of Amapaja erroneously to the east of the Orinoco. Where are the rivers Dauney and Ubarro? The Orinoco above the confluence of the Apure was at that period as little known to Europeans, as in our time the course of the Niger below Sego.
Between the panels were pictures hung upon the walls three or four flower-pictures by Varelst; three pictures of horses and dogs by Hondius, and a couple of Dutch pictures by Hoogstraaten. Over the fireplace was a chimney-breast by Gibbons; and the ceiling was all a-sprawl with gods and goddesses, I suppose by Verrio.
The geographer Hondius has filled up this void; and has even added to his map a table of longitudes and latitudes, among which figure the laguna del Dorado, and the Ville Imperiale de Manoas. Christopher Columbus cast anchor there on August 3, 1498. Columbus called the south-east cape of the island Punta Galera, on account of the form of a rock.
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