SIR ROBERT DUDLEY ad. 



1595- 

 Dorado, with many other things. My men being 

 satisfied, and thinking their company too fewe to stay 

 among these Savages, and their victuall spent, returned. 

 This Balthazar my Indian their guide ranne from them : 

 which distresse caused them to borrow of Armago newe 

 guides, who brought them home another way through a 

 River called Braha by the high land of Paria, and so to 

 my ship. They accompted Orocoa 150. miles distant, 

 so they rowed in my boate above 250. miles. Their 

 absence from mee was 16. dayes, making but one nights 

 aboad any where. The report of this made mee attempt 

 my company to goe with them againe. But nowe they 

 were worse then before ; for unlesse I would have 

 gone my selfe alone, not one man would goe with me 

 (no albeit I had had commission to hang or kill them) 

 for my men came home in very pitifuU case almost 

 dead for famine ; and indeed such was their misery, 

 as they dranke not in three dayes, for so long they 

 were out of the fresh Rivers, before they recovered the 

 shippe, and yet the boat was filled with as much victuall, 

 as it could holde. 



In this time of my boates absence there came to me a 

 pinnesse of Plimmouth, of which Captaine Popham CaptainePop- 

 before named was chiefe, who gave us great comfort. ^^^^^ arrival. 

 And if I had not lost my pinnesses, wherein I might [iii. 577.] 

 have caried victuals and some men, we had discovered 

 further the secrets of those places. Also this Captaine 

 and I stayed some sixe or eight dayes longer for Sir 

 Walter Ralegh (who, as wee surmized, had some purpose 

 for this discovery) to the ende, that by our intelligence 

 and his boates we might have done some good : but it 

 seemed he came not in sixe or eight weekes after. So 

 Captaine Popham and I helde it not convenient to stay They depart 

 any longer : therefore new watering our selves at Paracoa, J^J^I, ^^^-jj 

 we set saile to see further of the Indies, leaving the yle ^ 

 of Trinidad the 12. day of March. The 13. I tooke a A prize taken 

 small prize of sackes 25. leagues to the Northward of an i^^fn \ 

 yland which I sailed by, called Granata. This prize 

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