The Emptied Amazon · claim AMZ-C072 · Observation rung · The 1542 account
Oviedo's endorsement of Carvajal's credibility, as quoted by Medina, rests on the friar's two arrow wounds.
Not featured in the current editionAI-extractedorigin: report 2026-09-17-report-pre-columbian-amazon-134558; re-submitted from proposals/2026-09-17-draft-pre-columbian-amazon-135349 (was AMZ-C040; blocked 2026-09-17: the Internet Archive did not serve the OCR text of SRC-CARVAJAL-1542 during this run and retrieval read the item page instead, which is a viewer, not the text: )
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Medina 1894, Introducción, p. xiii (archive.org djvu full text)
“debe ser creído en virtud de aquellos dos flechazos”
Evidence
▲Supports· moderateAMZ-E113
Oviedo's endorsement of Carvajal rests on the friar's wounds — part 1
- what the source states
- Medina quotes Oviedo (Historia general, t. IV, p. 574): the friar "debe ser creído en virtud de aquellos dos flechazos", one of which took his eye.
- what we infer
- Credibility evidence at second hand: Oviedo vouches for the man on the basis of injuries and reputation reported by others, not personal acquaintance or independent knowledge of the river. It should stay separate from diagnosticity for AMZ-C017.
- limitations
- Oviedo quoted via Medina; the Oviedo volume is blocked in this ledger.
an honest empty state
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