THE DISCOVERY OF GUIANA ad. 



1595. 

 and thorow the territories of the Saima, and Wikiri, ^^ima and 

 recovered Cumana, where hee thought himselfe very ^ 

 safe, with Vides the governour. But Berreo sending 

 for him in the kings name, and his messengers finding 

 him in the house of one Fashardo on the sudden yer 

 he was suspected, so as he could not then be conveyed 

 away, Vides durst not deny him, aswell to avoid the 

 suspition of the practise, as also for that an holy father 

 was slaine by him and his people. Morequito offered 

 Fashardo the weight of three quintals in golde, to let 

 him escape : but the poor Guianian, betrayed on all 

 sides, was delivered to the campe-master of Berreo, 

 and was presently executed. Morequito 



After the death of this Morequito, the souldiers of ''^^^^ ^ ' 

 Berreo spoiled his territorie, and tooke divers prisoners, 

 among others they tooke the uncle of Morequito, 

 called Topiawari, who is now kins; of Aromaia (whose 

 Sonne I brought with me into England) and is a man 

 of great understanding and policy : he is above an 

 hundred yeeres olde, and yet of a very able body. 

 The Spaniards ledde him in a chaine seventeene dayes, 

 and made him their guide from place to place betweene 

 his countrey & Emeria, the province of Carapana 

 aforesayd, and he was at last redeemed for an hundred 

 plates of golde, and divers stones called Piedras Hijadas, 

 or Spleene-stones. Now Berreo for executing of More- 

 quito, and other cruelties, spoiles, and slaughters done 

 in Aromaia, hath lost the love of the Orenoqueponi, 

 and of all the borderers, and dare not send any of his 

 souldiers any further into the land then to Carapana, The towne of 

 which he called the port of Guiana : but from thence ^^^^l^^V^ 

 by the helpe of Carapana he had trade further into the Quiana. 

 countrey, and alwayes appointed ten Spaniards to reside 

 in Carapanas towne, by whose favour, and by being 

 conducted by his people, those ten searched the 

 countrey thereabouts, aswell for mines, as for other 

 trades and commodities. 



They also have gotten a nephew of Morequito, whom 



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