1. Our people were detained in this place longer than they had intended, because the brigantine had at last gone to the bottom, and they were obliged to use balsas and canoes for all the people and the cargo. Afterwards, not knowing whether this was the last village which they would come to, they departed from it without any supply of provisions, expecting to obtain them, as they had done down to this place, in other villages lower down the river. This carelessness was not a little inconvenient, for next day a terrible feeling of hunger began to afflict them, which continued during a voyage of nine days through a country entirely uninhabited, and during the whole time they did not meet with a single Indian. In consequence of having left the province of Carari without obtaining supplies, they had nothing to eat during all this time, except the fish which each man was able to net for himself, and a few turtles, hicoteas, bledos, and verdolagos, which they found on the banks; but in very small quantities for so large a party, and in some places they found none. This misery increased their weakness each day, and had it lasted a little longer they must all have died. The whole blame was laid on the governor, for his improvidence; for had he informed himself of this long tract of desert, he might have laid in a stock of provisions. The want of food was the reason which prevented the governor from stopping to examine two mighty rivers with turbid waters, caused by their flowing through ravines with reddish soil.