A.D. 



1595- 



[III. 644.] 



Two nations of 

 the Twitk'aSy 

 called Cia- 

 zvani, and 

 Waraweete. 

 A description 

 of the mighty 

 river of 

 Orenoque or 

 Baraquan. 



What maner 

 of people the 

 Tivitivas are. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



our pilot ; but they followed him notwithstanding, and 

 hunted after him upon the foot with the Deere-dogges, 

 and with so maine a crie, that all the woods eckoed 

 with the shout they made : but at the last this poore 

 chased Indian recovered the river side, and got upon a 

 tree, and as we were coasting, leaped downe and swamme 

 to the barge halfe dead with feare. But our good happe 

 was, that we kept the other olde Indian which we hand- 

 fasted to redeeme our pilot withall ; for being naturall 

 of those rivers, we assured our selves hee knew the way 

 better then any stranger could. And indeed, but for this 

 chance, I thinke we had never found the way either 

 to Guiana, or backe to our ships : for Ferdinando after a 

 few dayes knew nothing at all, nor which way to turne, 

 yea and many times the olde man himselfe was in 

 great doubt which river to take. Those people which 

 dwell in these broken islands and drowned lands, are 

 generally called Tivitivas ; there are of them two sorts, the 

 one called Ciawani, and the other Waraweete. 



The great river of Orenoque or Baraquan hath nine 

 branches which fall out on the North side of his owne 

 maine mouth : on the South side it hath seven other fall- 

 ings into the sea, so it disemboqueth by sixteene armes in 

 all, betweene Hands and broken ground, but the Hands 

 are very great, many of them as bigge as the Isle of 

 Wight, and bigger, and many lesse. From the first 

 branch on the North to the last of the South, it is at least 

 100 leagues, so as the rivers mouth is 300 miles wide at 

 his entrance into the sea, which I take to be farre bigger 

 then that of Amazones. All those that inhabit in the 

 mouth of this river upon the severall North branches, are 

 these Tivitivas, of which there are two chiefe lords which 

 have continuall warres one with the other. The Hands 

 which lie on the right hand, are called Pallamos, and the 

 land on the left, Horotomaka, and the river by which 

 John Dowglas returned within the land from Amana 

 to Capuri, they call Macuri. 



These Tivitivas are a very goodly people and very 



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