Why might Orellana not have seen cinnamon and gold?.............well if he stayed on the Parana he would not have seen the cinnamon trees.......of the Pantanal.........nor the gold mines......of Minas Gernais...........and distances in ancient times............are not like what we tend to think of them..........like many old world people will tell their American friends to meet them at 8pm.......the American will show up at 8pm............but the foreigner from cultures in Africa, Central or South
America..........where time means something different...........a general round about figure.......might not show up to meet u until 930pm..........


The expedition found neither cinnamon nor gold, but Orellana is credited with discovering the Amazon River (so named because of a tribe of female warriors that attacked Orellana’s men while on their voyage).