A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1595- 



spake with a captaine of a French ship that came from 

 thence, his ship riding in Falmouth the same yere that 

 my ships came first from Virginia. 



There was another this yeere in Helford that also 

 came from thence, and had bene foureteene moneths 

 at an anker in Amazones, which were both very rich. 

 [III. 638.] Although, as I am perswaded, Guiana cannot be entred 

 that way, yet no doubt the trade of gold from thence 

 passeth by branches of rivers into the river of Amazones, 

 and so it doth on every hand far from the countrey 

 it selfe ; for those Indians of Trinidad have plates of 

 golde from Guiana, and those canibals of Dominica which 

 dwell in the Islands by which our ships passe yerely 

 to the West Indies, also the Indians of Paria, those 

 Indians called Tucaris, Chochi, Apotomios, Cumanagotos, 

 and all those other nations inhabiting nere about the 

 mountaines that run from Paria thorow the province 

 of Venesuela, and in Maracapana, and the canibals of 

 Guanipa, the Indians called Assawai, Coaca, Aiai, and 

 the rest (all which shall be described in my description 

 as they are situate) have plates of golde of Guiana. And 

 upon the river of Amazones, Thevet writeth that the 

 people weare croissants of golde, for of that forme the 

 Guianians most commonly make them : so as from 

 Dominica to Amazones, which is above 250 leagues, 

 all the chiefe Indians in all parts weare of those plates 

 of Guiana. Undoubtedly those that trade Amazones 

 returne much golde, which (as is aforesayd) commeth by 

 trade from Guiana, by some branch of a river that falleth 

 from the countrey into Amazones, and either it is by 

 the river which passeth by the nations called Tisnados, 

 or by Carepuna. I made inquiry amongst the most 

 ancient and best travelled of the Orenoqueponi, and I 

 had knowledge of all the rivers betweene Orenoque 

 & Amazones, and was very desirous to understand the 

 truth of those warlike women, because of some it is 

 beleeved, of others not. And though I digresse from 

 my purpose, yet I will set downe that which hath bene 



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