THE DISCOVERY OF GUIANA ad. 



1595. 

 called Macureguarai at the said mountaine foote, at the [m* 651.] 



beginning of the great plaines of Guiana, which have ??^ ^^^^^ °f 

 no ende: and that their houses have many roomes, one ara'^ 

 over the other, and that therein the great King of the 

 Orejones and Epuremei kept three thousande men to de- 

 fend the borders against them, and withall dayly to invade 

 and slay them : but that of late yeeres since the Chris- 

 tians offered to invade his territories, and those frontiers, 

 they were all at peace, and traded one with another, 

 saving onely the Iwarawaqueri, and those other nations 

 upon the head of the river of Caroli, called Cassipagotos, 

 which we afterwards discovered, each one holding the 

 Spaniard for a common enemie. 



After hee had answered thus farre, he desired leave 

 to depart, saying that hee had farre to goe, that hee 

 was olde, and weake, and was every day called for by 

 death, which was also his owne phrase : I desired him 

 to rest with us that night, but I could not intreate him, 

 but hee tolde mee that at my returne from the countrey 

 above, hee would againe come to us, and in the meane 

 time provide for us the best he could, of all that his 

 countrey yeelded ; the same night hee returned to Oroco- Orotona be- 

 tona his owne towne, so as hee went that day eight and ^"'^^^^ +• ™ 

 twentie miles, the weather being very hot, the countrey ^ortherh 

 being situate betweene foure and five degrees of the latitude. 

 Equinoctial. 



This Topiawari is helde for the prowdest, and wisest 

 of all the Orenoqueponi, and so hee behaved himselfe 

 towardes mee in all his answeres at my returne, as I 

 marveiled to finde a man of that gravitie and judgement, 

 and of so good discourse, that had no helpe of learning 

 nor breede. 



The next morning we also left the port, and sailed 

 "Westward up to the River, to view the famous River 

 called Caroli, as well because it was marveilous of it selfe, 

 as also for that I understoode it ledde to the strongest 

 nations of all the frontiers, that were enemies to the 

 Epuremei, which are subjects to Inga, Emperour of 

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