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Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CI, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 250: “capibaras”
Antonie Knivet (1591) “The admirable aduentures and ſtrange fortunes of Maſter Antonie Knivet, which went with Maſter Thomas Candish in his ſecond voyage to the South Sea”, in Samuel Purchas, editor, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, part IV, book VI, chapter VII § V (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1242: “Capiuaras”