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Updated: June 18, 2025
"The Maranon will no doubt keep the Cuban coast close aboard until she gets as far east as, say, Cavana Point, and then steer about midway between Great Inagua and Hayti, keeping to the southward of all the banks, and so passing into the open Atlantic, probably `taking her departure', in the navigator's sense of the term, from Cape Viejo Francais, on the northern coast of Hayti, and striking thence, as straight across as she can go, to Fernando Po.
Perhaps the idea that Pincon, to whom the discovery of the real Maranon is due, had landed in these parts, since become celebrated by the shipwreck of Ayres da Cunha, has also contributed to this confusion. The Meary appears to me identical with the Rio de Vicente Pincon of Diego Ribeyro, which is more than one hundred and forty leagues from that of the modern geographers.
For you must remember that it will be some time before the escape of the Montijo family is known; probably not until the Maranon has travelled all the way to Fernando Po and back if she is indeed to return to Havana, which, by the way, is by no means certain. How would Guantanamo do?" "Guantanamo would do very well indeed," answered Don Ramon. "Yes; Guantanamo let it be.
That way has the advantage of being a good deal shorter than going round by the Marañon, but the difficulties and dangers are very much greater.” “Do you love the Spaniards?” Stephen asked. The Indian’s face darkened. “They have been the destroyers of our race,” he said; “the oppressors of our country. I hate them with all my heart.”
Then Milsom rang down to the engine-room for half speed; and a little later, when the Maranon was hull-up and the two vessels were closing fast, he ordered the forward port twelve-pound quick-firer to be loaded with a blank charge.
It is the sort of story that no man, I think, would ever invent about himself, for it is neither grandiose nor flattering, nor yet funny enough to gratify a perverted vanity. It concerns the engineer of the steam-launch belonging to the Maranon cattle estate of the B. O. S. Co., Ltd.
It may be naturally asked, where did these numerous animals live? When at Lima, I saw a tooth of a Mastodon in the possession of Don M. Rivero, found at Playa Chica on the Maranon, near the Guallaga.
It might be supposed that the amulets of saussurite found in the possession of the Indians of the Rio Negro, come from the Lower Maranon, while those that are received by the missions of the Upper Orinoco and the Rio Carony come from a country situated between the sources of the Essequibo and the Rio Branco.
These white Guaharibos have constructed a bridge of lianas above the cataract, supported on rocks that rise, as generally happens in the pongos of the Upper Maranon, in the middle of the river. The existence of this bridge, which is known to all the inhabitants of Esmeralda,* seems to indicate that the Orinoco must be very narrow at this point.
But he also shot wide of the mark; for being departed from Spain with his fleet, he entered by Maranon or Amazons, where by the nations of the river and by the Amazons, he was utterly overthrown, and himself and all his army defeated; only seven escaped, and of those but two returned.
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