Mine. 



THE DISCOVERY OF GUIANA ad. 



1595- 

 of Curaa, we should satisfie our selves with gold and all 



other good things : he told us farther of a nation called 



Iwarawaqueri before spoken off, that held dayly warre 



with the Epuremei that inhabited Macureguarai the first 



civill towne of Guiana, of the subjects of Inga the 



Emperour. 



Upon this river one Captaine George, that I tooke with 



Berreo tolde mee there was a great silver Mine, and that A ^great silver 



it was neere the banckes of the saide river. But by this 



time as well Orenoque, Caroli, as all the rest of the 



rivers were risen foure or five foote in height, so as it 



was not possible by the strength of any men, or with 



any boat whatsoever to rowe into the River against the 



streame. I therefore sent Captaine Thyn, Captaine 



Greenvile, my nephew John Gylbert, my cosen Butshead 



Gorges, Captaine Clarke, and some thirtie shotte more 



to coast the River by land, and to goe to a towne some 



twentie miles over the valley called Amnatapoi, and they Amnatapoi, a 



found guides there, to goe farther towards the mountaine ^''""^^' 



foote to another great towne called Capurepana, belonging 



to a Casique called Haharacoa (that was a nephew to 



olde Topiawari King of Arromaia our chiefest friend) 



because this towne and province of Capurepana adjoyned 



to Macureguarai, which was a frontier towne of the [III. 652.] 



Empire: and the meane while my selfe with Captaine 



GifFord, Captaine Calfield, Edward Hancocke, and some 



halfe a dosen shotte marched over land to viewe the 



strangle overfals of the river of Caroli which rored so farre 



off, and also to see the plaines adjoyning, and the rest of 



the province of Canuri: I sent also Captaine Whiddon, 



William Connocke, and some eight shotte with them, 



to see if they coulde finde any Minerall stone alongst the 



river side. When we were come to the tops of the first The strange 



hilles of the plaines adjoyning to the river, we behelde ^^^f^ ^/ 



that wonderfuU breach of waters, which ranne downe 



Caroli : and might from that mountaine see the river 



howe it ranne in three parts, above twentie miles off, and 



there appeared some tenne or twelve overfals in sight, 



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