SIR ROBERT DUDLEY ad. 



1595- 

 in Spanish. This discovery of Guiana I greatly desired : 



yet least I should adventure all occasions upon it onely, 

 I sent my two Caravels from me the 17. day of HistzvoCara- 

 February, to try their fortunes in the Indies not ^^^^ ^° 

 appointing any other place to meet but England, fur- ^^J-^^ 

 nishing them with all the provision that I could spare, 

 and dividing my victuals equally with them, knowing 

 they were able to do more good in the Indies then greater 

 ships. The Caravels being gone, I began to enquire 

 privately of the Savages concerning the maine over 

 against us, and learned that the names of the kingdomes 

 joyning to the Sea-coast were in order these. The 

 kingdom of Morucca, the kingdome of Seawano, the Seazvano called 

 kingdom e of Waliame, the kingdom of Caribes, the P^^^^P ^^ ^"' 

 kingdome of Yguirie, and right against the Northermost ji^i^^hs dls- 

 part of Trinidad, the maine was called The high land of covery Cia- 

 Paria, the rest a very lowe land. Morucco I learned to ^vani. 

 bee full of a greene stone called Tacarao, which is good ^^^ Walter 

 for the stone. In Seawano I heard of a Mine of gold cthff^alli ' 

 to be in a towne called Wackerew, the Captaines name andWikeriln 

 Semaracon. Of Waliame I will speake last, because hh discovery. 

 therein I made most discovery. The Caribes I learned to 

 be man-eaters or Canibals, and great enemies to the 

 Islanders of Trinidad. The kingdome of Yguiri I heard 

 to be full of a metall called by the Indians Arara, which 

 is either copper (as I could learne) or very base gold. 

 In the high land of Paria I was informed by divers of 

 these Indians, that there was some Perota, which with 

 them is silver, and great store of most excellent Cane- 

 tabacco. But lastly to come to Waliame, it is the first 

 kingdome of the empire of Guiana. The great wealth 

 which I understood to be therein, and the assurance that 

 I had by an Indian, mine interpreter, of a golden Mine in ^^^^ ^^^ 

 a towne of this kingdome called Orocoa, in the River (as Baltkasar, 

 he called it) of Owrinoicke was much to be esteemed. '^^'^0 after- 

 This Indian spake Spanish, and whatsoever he knew, he '^^^^g^'^^^r 

 reveiled it to my selfe onely by a private interpreter, not ^^^^ L-efte^st 

 in words alone, but offered upon paine of life to be guide need. 



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