AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



himselfe and his people with all those downe the River 

 towards the Sea, as farre as Emeria, the province of 

 Carapana, were of Guiana, but that they called them- 

 selves Orenoqueponi, and that all the nations betweene 

 the river and those mountaines in sight called Wacarima, 

 were of the same cast and appellation : and that on the 

 other side of those mountaines of Wacarima there was 

 a large plaine (which after I discovered in my returne) 

 The valley of called the valley of Amariocapana, in all that valley the 

 Amar'toca- people were also of the ancient Guianians. 

 ''^^^' I asked what nations those were which inhabited on 



the farther side of those mountaines, beyond the valley 

 of Amariocapana : hee answered with a great sigh (as 

 a man which had inward feeling of the losse of his 

 Countrey and libertie, especially for that his eldest 

 Sonne was slaine in a battell on that side of the moun- 

 taines, whom hee most entirely loved) that hee remem- 

 bred in his fathers life time when hee was very olde, 

 and himselfe a yong man, that there came downe into 

 that large valley of Guiana, a nation from so farre off 

 as the Sunne slept, (for such were his owne wordes) 

 with so great a multitude as they coulde not bee num- 

 bred nor resisted, and that they wore large coates, and 

 hattes of crimson colour, which colour hee expressed, by 

 shewing a piece of red wood, wherewith my tent was 

 Orejones are supported, and that they were called Orejones, and 

 the gentlemen gpuremei, those that had slaine and rooted out so 

 de Gomar "^^ny of the ancient people, as there were leaves in the 

 Hut. gen. wood upon all the trees, and had nowe made themselves 

 cap. 119. Lords of all, even to that mountaine foote called Curaa, 

 saving onely of two nations, the one called Awarawaqueri, 

 and the other Cassipagotos, and that in the last battell 

 fought betweene the Epuremei, and the Iwarawaqueri, 

 his eldest sonne was chosen to carry to the aide of the 

 Iwarawaqueri, a great troupe of the Orenoqueponi, and 

 was there slaine with all his people and friendes, and 

 that hee had now remayning but one sonne : and farther 

 tolde mee that those Epuremei had built a great Towne 



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