AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1595. 



painefull pilgrimage, and purchase the least remission, 

 I shall thinke all too litle, & that there were wanting 

 to the rest many miseries. But if both the times past, 

 the present, and what may be in the future, doe all by 

 one graine of gall continue in eternall distast ; I doe 

 not then know whether I should bewaile my selfe, 

 either for my too much travell and expence, or 

 condemne my selfe for doing lesse then that, which 

 can deserve nothing. From my selfe I have deserved 

 no thankes, for I am returned a beggar, and withered, 

 but that I might have bettred my poore estate, it shall 

 appeare by the following discourse, if I had not onely 

 respected her Majesties future Honour, and riches. 

 It became not the former fortune in which I once lived, 

 to goe journeys of picory, it had sorted ill with the 

 offices of Honour, which by her Majesties grace I hold 

 this day in England, to run from Cape to Cape, and 

 from place to place, for the pillage of ordinaries prizes. 

 Many yeeres since, I had knowledge by relation, of 

 that mighty, rich and beautifuU Empier of Guiana, and 

 of that great and golden Citie, which the Spaniards call 

 El Dorado, and the naturals Manoa, which Citie was 

 conquered, reedified, and inlarged by a yonger sonne 

 of Guainacapa Emperour of Peru, at such time as 

 Francisco Pizarro and others conquered the said 

 Empire, from his two elder brethren, Guascar, and 

 Atabalipa, both then contending for the same, the one 

 being favoured by the Orejones of Cuzco, the other 

 by the people of Caxamalca. I sent my servant Jacob 

 Whiddon the yere before, to get knowledge of the 

 passages, and I had some light from Captaine Parker, 

 sometime my servant, and nowe attending on your 

 Lordship, that such a place there was to the Southward 

 of the great Bay of Charuas, or Guanipa : but I found 

 that it was 600 miles farther off then they supposed, 

 and many other impediments to them unknowen and 

 unheard. After I had displanted Don Antonio de 

 Berreo, who was upon the same enterprize, leaving my 



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