A.D. 



1595- 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The discoverie of the large, rich, and beautiful! 



Empire of Guiana, with a relation of the great and 



golden citie of Manoa (which the Spaniards call 



El Dorado) and the provinces of Emeria, Aromaia, 



Amapaia, and other countries, with their rivers ad- 



joyning. Performed in the yeere 1595 by Sir Walter 



Ralegh Knight, Captaine of Her Majesties 



Guard, Lorde Warden of the Stanneries, 



and Her Highnesse Leiutenant Generall 



of the Countie of Corne-wall. 



To the right Honourable my singular good Lord and 

 kinsman Charles Howard, Knight of the Garter, 

 Baron and Counceller, and of the Admirals of 

 England the most renowmed : and to the right 

 Honourable Sir Robert Cecyll knight, Counceller 

 in her Highnesse Privie Councels. 



Or your Honours many Honourable 

 and friendly partes, I have hitherto 

 onely returned promises, and now for 

 answere of both your adventures, I 

 have sent you a bundle of papers, 

 which I have devided betwene your 

 Lordship, and Sir Robert Cecyll in 

 these two respects chiefly : First for that it is reason, 

 that wastful factors, when they have consumed such 

 stockes as they had in trust, doe yeeld some colour for 

 the same in their account ; secondly for that I am 

 assured, that whatsoever shall bee done, or written by 

 me, shall neede a double protection and defence. The 

 triall that I had of both your loves, when I was left 

 of all, but of malice and revenge, makes me still 

 presume, that you wil be pleased (knowing what litle 

 power I had to performe ought, and the great 

 advantage of forewarned enemies) to answer that out 

 of knowledge, which others shal but object out of 



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