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If you haven't read the story of the first Westerner to travel the length of the Amazon, it's perhaps the most incredible adventure of all time:

"River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana and the Deadly First Voyage through the Amazon" https://a.co/d/cmtyj0l

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Orellana's voyage down the Amazon river is the subject of one episode of Michael Wood's Conquistadors, a series of travel videos linked below. Orellana described seeing large communities and cities from the river, recording the existence of a large population that had been decimated by the time the wider world ventured into the Amazon.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5mko7v

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