AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1595. 



cousin Butshead Gorges, and eight more. In the 

 galley, of gentlemen and officers my selfe had captaine 

 Thin, my cousin John Greenvile, my nephew John 

 Gilbert, captaine Whiddon, captaine Keymis, Edward 

 Handcocke, captaine Clarke, lieutenant Hewes, Thomas 

 Upton, captaine Facy, Jerome Ferrar, Anthony Welles, 

 William Connocke, and above fifty more. We could 

 not learne of Berreo any other way to enter but in 

 branches, so farre to wind-ward, as it was impossible 

 for us to recover : for wee had as much sea to crosse over 

 in our wheries, as betweene Dover and Calais, and in 

 a great billow, the winde and current being both very 

 strong, so as we were driven to goe in those small boats 

 The bay of directly before the winde into the bottome of the bay 

 Guampa. ^^ Guanipa, and from thence to enter the mouth of some 

 one of those rivers which John Dowglas had last dis- 

 covered, and had with us for pilot an Indian of Barema, 

 a river to the South of Orenoque, betweene that and 

 Amazones, whose canoas we had formerly taken as hee 

 Barema. was going from the sayd Barema, laden with Cassavi- 



bread, to sell at Margarita. This Arwacan promised to 

 bring me into the great river of Orenoque, but indeed of 

 that which he entred he was utterly ignorant, for he had 

 not seene it in twelve yeeres before ; at which time he was 

 very yoong, and of no judgement: and if God had not 

 sent us another helpe, we might have wandred a whole 

 yere in that labyrinth of rivers, yer wee had found any 

 way, either out or in, especially after wee were past 

 ebbing and flowing, which was in foure dayes, for I know 

 J woonderfull all the earth doeth not yeelde the like confluence of 

 confluence of gtreames and branches, the one crossing the other so many 

 times, and all so faire and large, and so like one to 

 another, as no man can tell which to take : and if wee went 

 by the Sunne or Compasse, hoping thereby to goe directly 

 one way or other, yet that way wee were also caried in a 

 circle amongst multitudes of Islands, and every Island so 

 bordered with high trees, as no man coulde see any further 

 then the bredth of the river, or length of the breach. 



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