Note 405 — Chapter LXXVIII

For an account of this remarkable emigration of Indians from Brazil, see my Introduction to the Expedition of Pedro de Ursua (“Search for El Dorado.” Hakluyt Society’s volume for 1861, p. xxviii, and p. 2 of the text.) Their chief, named Viraratu, was sent to Lima, and it was his report that led to the organisation of the expedition in search of El Dorado and Omagua, which descended the Amazon in 1559, under Pedro de Ursua, and met with so tragic a fate.