THE DISCOVERY OF GUIANA ad. 



1595- 

 In the meane time, fearing the woorst, I caused all the 

 carpenters we had, to cut downe a Galego boat, which we 

 meant to cast off, and to fit her with banks to row 

 on, and in all things to prepare her the best they could, so 

 as she might be brought to draw but five foot, for so 

 much we had on the barre of Capuri at low water. 

 And doubting of Kings returne, I sent John Dowglas 

 againe in my long barge, aswell to relieve him, as also 

 to make a perfect search in the bottome of that bay: 

 for it hath bene held for infallible, that whatsoever ship 

 or boat shall fall therein, can never disemboque againe, 

 by reason of the violent current which setteth into the 

 sayde bay, as also for that the brize and Easterly winde 

 bloweth directly into the same. Of which opinion I have 

 heard John Hampton of Plymmouth, one of the greatest John Hampton 



experience of England, and divers others besides that captaine of the 

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I sent with John Dowglas an olde casique of Trinidad kins in his voi- 

 for a pilot, who tolde us that we could not returne againe age to 5. Juan 

 by the bay or gulfe, but that he knew a by-branch which ^^ UUua. 

 ran within the land to the Eastward, and that he thought 

 by it we might fall into Capuri, and so returne in 

 foure dayes. John Dowglas searched those rivers, and 

 found foure goodly entrances, whereof the least was 

 as bigge as the Thames at Wolwich ; but in the bay 

 thitherward it was shoald, and but sixe foot water : so 

 as we were now without hope of any ship or barke 

 to passe over, and therefore resolved to go on with the 

 boats, and the bottome of the Galego, in which we thrust 

 6o men. In the Lions whelpes boat & whery we caried 

 2o. Captaine Calfield in his whery caried ten more, and 

 in my barge other tenne, which made up a hundred ; [III. 643.] 

 we had no other meanes but to cary victuall for a moneth 

 in the same, and also to lodge therein as we could, and to 

 boile and dresse our meat. Captaine Gifford had with 

 him master Edward Porter, captaine Eynos, and eight 

 more in his whery, with all their victuall, weapons, 

 and provisions. Captaine Calfield had with him my 



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