A.D. 



1595- 



The yle of 

 Caiama. 

 They arrive 

 at the mouth 

 of the river 

 Caroli. 



Wanuretona. 



Cassipagotos, 

 Eparagotos, 

 and Arazva- 

 gotos three 

 mighty nations 

 seated on a 

 lake at the 

 head of the 

 river Caroli. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Guiana, and Manoa, and that night we anckered at 

 another yland called Caiama, of some five or sixe miles 

 in length, and the next day arrived at the mouth of 

 Caroli. When we were short of it as lowe or further 

 downe as the port of Morequito wee heard the great rore 

 and fall of the River, but when wee came to enter with 

 our barge and whirries thinking to have gone up some 

 fourtie miles to the nations of the Cassipagotos, wee were 

 not able with a barge of eight oares to row one stones 

 cast in an houre, and yet the River is as broad as the 

 Thames at Wolwich, and wee tried both sides, and the 

 middle, and every part of the River, so as we incamped 

 upon the bankes adjoyning, and sent off our Orenoque- 

 pone (which came with us from Morequito) to give 

 knowledge to the nations upon the River of our being 

 there, and that wee desired to see the Lordes of Canuria, 

 which dwelt within the province upon that River, making 

 them know that we were enemies to the Spaniards, (for 

 it was on this River side that Morequito slewe the Frier, 

 and those nine Spaniards which came from Manoa, the 

 Citie of Inga, and tooke from them fourtie thousande 

 pezos of golde) so as the next day there came downe a 

 Lord or Casique called Wanuretona with many people 

 with him, and brought all store of provisions to enter- 

 taine us, as the rest had done. And as I had before 

 made my comming knowen to Topiawari, so did I 

 acquaint this Casique therewith, and howe I was sent 

 by her Majestic for the purpose aforesaide, and gathered 

 also what I could of him touching the estate of Guiana, 

 and I founde that those also of Caroli were not onely 

 enemies to the Spaniards, but most of all to the Epuremei, 

 which abound in golde, and by this Wanuretona, I had 

 knowledge that on the head of this River were three 

 mighty nations, which were seated on a great lake, from 

 whence this River descended, & were called Cassipagotos, 

 Eparagotos, and Arawagotos, and that all those either 

 against the Spaniards, or the Epuremei would joyne with 

 us, and that if wee entred the land over the mountaines 



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