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than 100. miles a day: Besides our vessels were 

 no other then whirries, one little barge, a small 

 cockboat, and a bad Galiota, which we framed in 

 hast for that purpose at Trinidad, and those little boats 

 had 9. or 10. men a piece, with all their victuals, and 

 armes. It is further true, that we were about 400. 

 miles from our ships, and had bene a moneth from 

 them, which also we left weakly manned in an open 

 road, and had promised our returne in 15. dayes. 

 Others have devised that the same oare was had from 

 Barbary, and that we caried it with us into Guiana : surely 

 the singularitie of that device I doe not well compre- 

 hend : for mine owne part, I am not so much in love 

 with these long voyages, as to devise, therby to cozen 

 my selfe, to lie hard, to fare worse, to be subjected to 

 perils, to diseases, to ill savors, to be parched & withered, 

 and withall to sustaine the care & labour of such an 

 enterprize, except the same had more comfort, then the 

 fetching of Marcasite in Guiana, or buying of gold 

 oare in Barbary. But I hope the better sort wil 

 judge me by themselves, & that the way of deceit is 

 not the way of honor or good opinion : I have herein con- 

 sumed much time, & many crownes, & I had no other 

 respect or desire then to serve her Majestic and my coun- 

 try thereby. If the Spanish nation had bene of like 

 beliefe to these detracters, we should litle have feared or 

 doubted their attempts, wherewith we now are daily 

 threatned. But if we now consider of the actions both of 

 Charles the 5. who had the maidenhead of Peru, and the 

 abundant treasures of Atabalipa, together with the affaires 

 of the Spanish king now living, what territories he 

 hath purchased, what he hath added to the acts of his 

 predecessors, how many kingdoms he hath indangered, 

 how many armies, garisons, & navies he hath and doth 

 mainteine, the great losses which he hath repaired, as 

 in 88. above 100. saile of great ships with their artillery, 

 & that no yere is lesse unfortunate but that many 

 vessels, treasures, and people are devoured, and yet not- 



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