THE DISCOVERY OF GUIANA ad. • 



1595. 

 Juan Sarmiento, governor of Margarita when sir John The voyage of 

 Burgh landed there, and attempted the Island. Agiri sirJohnBurgh 

 put to the sword all other in the Island that refused to ^j^^l^^'^ 

 be of his party, and tooke with him certeine Simerones, 

 and other desperate companions. From thence he went 

 to Cumana, and there slew the governour, and dealt in 

 all as at Margarita : hee spoiled all the coast of Caracas, 

 and the province of Venezuela, and of Rio de la hacha ; 

 and as I remember, it was the same yere that sir John 

 Hawkins sailed to Saint Juan de Ullua in the Jesus of 

 Lubeck : for himselfe tolde me that he met with such a 

 one upon the coast that rebelled, and had sailed downe all 

 the river of Amazones. Agiri from thence landed about 

 Sancta Marta, and sacked it also, putting to death so 

 many as refused to be his followers, purposing to invade 

 Nuevo reyno de Granada, and to sacke Pamplon, Merida, 

 Lagrita, Tunxa, and the rest of the cities of Nuevo reyno, 

 and from thence againe to enter Peru : but in a fight in 

 the sayd Nuevo reyno he was overthrowen, and finding 

 no way to escape, he first put to the sword his owne 

 children, foretelling them that they should not live to be [III. 637.] 

 defamed or upbraided by the Spanyards after his death, 

 who would have termed them the children of a traitour 

 or tyrant; and that sithence hee could not make them 

 princes, hee would yet deliver them from shame and 

 reproch. These were the ends and tragedies of Ordas, 

 Martinez, Orellana; Ozua, and Agiri. 



Also soone after Ordas followed Jeronimo Ortal de i534- 

 Saragosa with 130 souldiers, who failing his entrance by ^^^^'^^1' 

 sea, was cast with the current on the coast of Paria, & 

 peopled about S. Miguel de Neveri. It was then 

 attempted by Don Pedro de Silva, a Portugues of the ^on Pedro de 

 family of Ruigomes de Silva, and by the favour which ^^^^^• 

 Ruigomes had with the king, he was set out, but he also 

 shot wide of the marke ; for being departed from Spaine 

 with his fleet, he entered by Marannon and Amazones, 

 where by the nations of the river, and by the Amazones 

 hee was utterly overthrowen, and himselfe and all his 



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