What It Was Like To Be The First To Cross The Amazon

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In 1541, fifty Spanish soldiers boarded a small wooden brigantine on the Coca River, in the eastern foothills of what is now Ecuador, and pushed off into a country no European had ever traveled. Their captain, Francisco de Orellana — one-eyed, from Trujillo in Extremadura, possible cousin of the Pizarro brothers — had been told to find food in twelve days and bring it back. The current would not let them. Over the next nine months, Orellana, fifty men, and a Dominican friar named Gaspar de Carvajal would become the first Europeans to descend the Amazon River from the Andes to the Atlantic. They would build two ocean-going boats out of jungle wood with nails forged from horseshoes and bellows made from their own riding boots. They would be fed back to life by a chief named Aparia. They would survive the drumming on the banks, the canoes of Machiparo, the women warriors at the Trombetas, and the rising water of an entire wet season. Tonight, you are not watching that voyage. You are on it. Drift off as you experience what it was like to be a Spanish soldier on the first descent of the Amazon — the hunger, the river, the friar beside you, the salt at the river's mouth, and the slow strange understanding that the country you had been told was empty was, in fact, the most populated wilderness in the New World. Sleep now, nightling. The boat is on the water. The river is alive. #SleepyBiographer #SleepStory #HistoricalNarrative #AmazonRiver #Orellana #Conquistador #Carvajal #1541 #BedtimeStory #SleepHistory

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18 de jun de 20262 h 6 min

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