 Gaspar de Carvajal, the chaplain of the first expedition, wrote a chronicle of the voyage ("Relación del nuevo descubrimiento del famoso río Grande que descubrió por muy gran ventura el capitán Francisco de Orellana"), which was partly reproduced in Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's "Historia general y natural de las Indias" (1542), who included in addition statements by Orellana and some of his men.Carvajal's work was published in 1894 by the Chilean historian José Toribio Medina, as part of his book "Descubrimiento del Río de las Amazonas" (Seville