The first descent of the Amazon, read from both sides: Carvajal's relación and Gonzalo Pizarro's letter of accusation

The first navigation of the Amazon is usually told as Orellana's adventure. Two documents printed together in 1894 let it be read from both sides: the Dominican Gaspar de Carvajal's eyewitness relación, which describes riverbanks so densely settled that the boats could not land, and Gonzalo Pizarro's letter to the King of 3 September 1542, which calls the same voyage a desertion. This object quotes both, and says what neither of them settles.