132 VIEWS, 8(C. l'l.AUM "i CAJLA.MARCA. 



(17) ]>. U5 — *' Expected n iteration of the Tnca rule" 



I have treated this Bubjecf at Length in another work, 

 sir Walter Raleigh had heard of an old prophecy current in 

 ;i. which fori told " - that from [nglaterra those [ngas Bhoulde 

 be againe in time t'> come n d ami deliuered from the 



Beruitude <»t' the Baid conquerors. I am resolued that If there 

 were hut a small army a: In Guiana marching towards 



Manoa, the chiefe citie of Inga, he would yield her Majesty 

 by composition, bo many hundred thousand pounds v» areh ■ 

 should both defend all enemies abroad and d< fray all expense a 

 at home, and that lie woulde besides pay a garrison «>t' 3000 

 or 4000 soldiers yen royally t>> defend him against ether 

 nations. The [nca will be tribute with great glad- 



A restoration project, which promised to In- highly 

 satisfactory to l>eth parties, hut. unfortunately for the succi S3 

 of the scheme, the dynasty which was to be r< stored and which 

 was to pay for the restoration was wanting. 



(18) ]>. 418 — ■' / henturous exp of Vasco Nttnez 



dr Ball 



I have, in another work, mentioned the fact that Columb 

 • b ' I is death, full ten years prior to Balboa's expedi- 

 tion, was aware of the existence of the South Sea, and its near 

 proximity to th< i tofVeragua.* Columbus was led 



the knowl< dge of this fact, not by theoretical speculations on 

 the c infiguration of Eastern Asia, but by positive and local in- 

 formation obtained from the inhabitants themselves, in format ion 

 which he collected on his fourth voyage 11th M ay, 1502, to 

 the 7th November, 1504 . This fourth voyage led the Admiral 

 from the < >f Honduras to the Puerto de Mosquitos, and 



,r as the western extremity of the Isthmus of Panama. 



■ 



The natives reported and Columbus commented on their re- 

 ports in the Carta rarissima of the 7th of July, 1503), "that not 



far from the Rio de Belen, the other si a the South Sea), turns 



* Relation hist, t. iii. pp. 7a3, 7".".. 713. 



t Raleigh, The Discovery <>j'tl,< i<ir<i>. rich, and beautiful Empirt 

 of Guiana. j» rforn i< d in 1595. Edition published by sir Robert 

 Schomburgk, 1 MS, pp. 119 and 137. 



% Examen critiqui de Vhistoire de la Giopraphie du Nouveau 

 tinent et des progress dt VAstronomienautique mix I5me et 16m< 

 riecles, t. i.p. 349. 



