AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1595- 



The province prise, untill such time as hee arrived at the province 



of Emeria ^f Emeria towards the East sea and mouth of the 



inhabited b\ - i i r j ^- c ^ c 



zentkhidians ^^^er, where he round a nation or people very tavour- 

 able, and the countrey full of all maner of victuall. 



Carapana. The king of this land is called Carapana, a man very 

 wise, subtill, and of great experience, being little lesse 

 then an hundred yeeres olde : in his youth he was 

 sent by his father into the Island of Trinidad, by 

 reason of civill warre among themselves, and was bred 

 at a village in that island, called Parico ; at that 

 place in his youth hee had scene many Christians, 

 both French and Spanish, and went divers times with 

 the Indians of Trinidad to Margarita and Cumana in 

 the West Indies (for both those places have ever 

 beene relieved with victuall from Trinidad) by reason 

 whereof he grew of more understanding, and noted 

 the difference of the nations, comparing the strength 

 and armes of his countrey with those of the Christians, 

 and ever after temporized so, as whosoever els did 

 amisse, or was wasted by contention, Carapana kept 

 himselfe and his countrey in quiet & plenty : he also 

 held peace with the Caribes or Canibals his neighbours, 

 and had free trade with all nations, whosoever els had 

 warre. 



Berreo sojourned and rested his weake troupe in 

 the towne of Carapana sixe weeks, and from him 

 learned the way and passage to Guiana, and the riches 

 and magnificence thereof; but being then utterly dis- 

 able to proceed, he determined to try his fortune 

 another yere, when he had renewed his provisions, 

 and regathered more force, which hee hoped for as well 

 out of Spaine as from Nueva reyno, where hee had 

 left his Sonne, Don Antonio Ximenes to second him 

 upon the first notice given of his entrance, and so for 

 the present imbarked himselfe in canoas, and by the 

 branches of Orenoque arrived at Trinidad, having from 

 Carapana sufficient pilots to conduct him. From 

 Trinidad he coasted Paria, and so recovered Mar- 



