The New Africa Company, was this new creation was known, was not allowed to venture into New Africa by their own accord at first. Rather, they needed to petition the Senate or the Emperor for a Charter in order to touch this new land. The first charter of the New Africa Company, granted in 1248 (495 AD) requested rights to use the Port of Lurium and to explore its surrounding areas independently and alongside the military expeditions going on in the same region. The New Africa Company were the first to discover the river they named the Great Senicio River (Amazon River) after Captain Gaius Ulixes Senicio who led the first expedition down this river. The city of Ulixes (Belém, Brazil) was established and named after this same Captain, working for the New Africa Company, and which became a s