A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



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drinke, for if they take any licour into their body, as 

 they shall bee marveilously provoked thereunto by 

 drought, I say, if they drinke before the wound bee 

 dressed, or soone upon it, there is no way with them 

 but present death. 



And so I will returne againe to our journey which 

 for this thirde day we finished, and cast ancker againe 

 neere the continent or the left hand betweene two 

 mountaines, the one called Aroami, and the other Aio : 

 I made no stay here but till midnight, for I feared 

 [III. 650.] hourely least any raine should fall, and then it had 

 bene impossible to have gone any further up, notwith- 

 standing that there is every day a very strong brize, 

 and Easterly winde. I deferred the search of the 

 countrey on Guiana-side, till my returne downe the 

 river. 



The next day we sailed by a great yland in the 



The yie of middle of the river called Manoripano, and as wee 



Mamripano. talked a while on the yland, while the Galley got 



a head of us, there came for us from the maine a small 



Canoa with seven or eight Guianians, to invite us to 



ancker at their port, but I deferred till my returne ; 



It was that Casique to whom those Nepoios went, which 



came with us from the towne of Toparimaca: and so 



The province the fift day we reached as high up as the province of 



Aromaia. Aromaia the countrey of Morequito whom Berreo exe- 



The yle of cuted, and ankered to the West of an yland called 



Murrecotima. Murrecotima, tenne miles long and five broad : and 



that night the Casique Aramiary, (to whose towne we 



made our long and hungry voyage out of the river of 



Amana) passed by us. 



The next day wee arrived at the port of Morequito, 

 and anckered there, sending away one of our Pilots 

 to seeke the king of Aromaia, uncle to Morequito 

 slaine by Berreo as aforesaid. The next day following 

 before noone hee came to us on foote from his house, 

 which was foureteene English miles (himselfe being a 

 hundreth and tenne yeeres olde) and returned on foote 



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