Posted on 10/29/2018 7:57:30 AM PDT by DariusBane
Broshou, Nican!!
Orellana went on to complete his voyage, and sailed out of the Amazon and into the Atlantic. It was more than twenty years before anyone else went down the Amazon, and when they did, they found the area had been devistated an depopulated by disease brought by Orellanas men, and the natives left were uniformly hostile.
Who knows what civilizations existed in the Amazon basin before Orellana, or from what stock they came.
The keyword "solutrean" probably works well also.
Wow, those stories deserve more attention. I have some reading to do.
Thank you!
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