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Patuca: frontier region in eastern Honduras.

By Bass, Jerry O.
Publication: Focus
Date: Friday, March 22 2002

FRIAR PEDRO'S ACCOUNT

Just before Christmas of 1699, Friar Pedro de la Concepcion left Nuestra Senora de Dolores and headed downstream on the Patuca River in what is now Olancho in eastern Honduras. Guided by four "Gentiles" (or Heathens) and two Christian interpreters, he traveled by boat down the Patuca in search of a group of Indians who had run away from the mission at Dolores. In a field journal Friar Pedro told of who and what the group encountered along the way. Descriptions of the landscape and its names, such as the overpowering Quicungun (meaning Howler Monke

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