A.D. 

 1595. 



Reade 



Josephus 

 Acosta. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



which they use in the warres, he called it El Dorado. 

 After the death of Ordas and Martinez, and after Orel- 

 lana, who was imployed by Gonzalo Pizarro, one Pedro 

 de Osua a knight of Navarre attempted Guiana, taking 

 his way from Peru, and built his brigandines upon a river 

 called Oia, which riseth to the Southward of Quito, and 

 is very great. This river falleth into Amazones, by which 

 Osua with his companies descended, and came out of that 

 province which is called Mutylonez: and it seemeth to 

 mee that this empire is reserved for her Majesty and the 

 English nation, by reason of the hard successe which all 

 these and other Spanyards found in attempting the same, 

 whereof I will speake briefly, though impertinent in some 

 sort to my purpose. This Pedro de Osua had among 

 his troups a Biscain, called Agiri, a man meanly borne, 

 who bare no other office then a sergeant or alferez : but 

 after certeine moneths, when the souldiers were grieved 

 with travels, and consumed with famine, and that no 

 entrance could be found by the branches or body of 

 Amazones, this Agiri raised a mutiny, of which hee made 

 himselfe the head, and so prevailed, as he put Osua to 

 the sword, and all his followers, taking on him the whole 

 charge and commandement, with a purpose not onely to 

 make himselfe emperour of Guiana, but also of Peru, & 

 of all that side of the West Indies : he had of his party 

 seven hundred souldiers, and of those many promised to 

 draw in other captaines and companies, to deliver up 

 townes and forts in Peru : but neither finding by ye said 

 river any passage into Guiana, nor any possibility to 

 returne towards Peru by the same Amazones, by reason 

 that ye descent of the river made so great a current, he 

 was inforced to disemboque at the mouth of the sayd 

 Amazones, which can not be lesse then a thousand 

 leagues from the place where they imbarked : from thence 

 he coasted the land till he arrived at Margarita to the 

 North of Mompatar, which is at this day called Puerto 

 de Tyranno, for that he there slew Don Juan de villa 

 Andreda, governour of Margarita, who was father to Don 



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